Sentences with phrase «in coastal»

In the coastal marshes of New England, this has been happening between two sparrows — the Saltmarsh Sparrow and Nelson's Sparrow.

«This study is a major step forward in understanding marine life in the coastal region near Syowa Station,» says Dr. Keiichi Kakui, «The Flabegraviera genus, to which the three species belong, is unique to the Antarctic and considered a good example for studying how polychaetes adapt to extreme environments.»

«The results show that people in coastal areas are more aware of flood threats than those living in inland flood zones, and that populations in inland areas are increasing.

New breeds are cultivated in, for example, mesh cages in coastal waters.

«The evidence suggests that human activities in coastal zones will continue to have an important impact on global carbon cycling,» Bauer said.

When marine biologist Sarah Fortune spotted bowhead whales rolling onto their backs in coastal waters near Canada's Baffin Island several summers ago, she was baffled.

They studied development trends from 2001 to 2011 and found that urban development has declined in coastal flood zones in general across the U.S.. However, development in flood zones in inland counties has grown.

The Nature paper suggests that microscopic plant growth in coastal areas, fueled by fertilizer runoff, is now leading to greater uptake of CO2.

The researchers compiled urban development, flood hazard and census data and overlaid it on a map of the U.S.. Although their analysis shows that Americans in general have become more aware of the risk of floods over the 10 - year study period, the researchers identified several U.S. hot spots where urban development has grown in coastal flood zones including New York City and Miami.

The capture and release of carbon dioxide is difficult to study in coastal systems because of their diverse and variable nature.

Prior to the industrial age, decomposing plant materials in coastal waters and sediments likely led to the release of carbon dioxide.

To meet this demand, the fishing industry cultivates these shellfish in coastal aquafarms.

Proposals to govern the actions ships take in coastal waters were submitted to the Fisheries Service of NOAA, where a «tremendous advocate» named Lindy Johnson worked.

Making coastal development less attractive «Governments can make development in coastal areas less attractive by requiring development projects to internalize the risks of sea level rise and storms in coastal development planning and decision making,» the task force argues.

But in the habitat of the urban whale, in the coastal areas of the Eastern Seaboard, there are many ships and less space.

«To protect these valuable resources, it is important to study them and quantify what is causing wetland loss in coastal Louisiana,» said Wdowinski.

Crustaceans at 10,000 meters contain higher concentrations of chemicals than some animals in coastal waters

The squirrel tree frog, or Hyla squirella, lives in coastal forests from North Carolina to Texas and works hard to conserve what meager supplies of water it can scrounge during the arid southern autumn.

Opponents of drilling in the coastal plain point to the very vehicle in which Congress is trying to open it up — through the special budget reconciliation process that requires just 51 votes in the Senate — as evidence that through traditional channels they still do not have the political will to drill in the Arctic refuge.

They focused on climate change and sea - level rise impacts in the coastal zone, and examined ways of how to better manage and cope with climate change.

In coastal waters where the surrounding light and water are green, specific proteins help catch green light.

Three times as many people live in coastal California now as did in 1950.

SEATTLE — Between outbreaks, cholera hides in coastal waters and rivers.

In coastal California newts the current and future ranges appear to overlap, but by the time that future habitat becomes available late in the century, her simulation indicates that the current range will have contracted so much that the animals have no route to get there.

«Models such as this are needed for better forecasting of damaging wave conditions in coastal waters.»

Together with similar tracks found recently in other parts of the world, the Skye trackways reveal that sauropods spent lots of time in coastal areas and shallow water.

Researchers say the mercury in coastal fog probably comes from deep ocean waters, which well to the surface every summer.

Alaska Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Andy Mack said his office gets asked if there would be demand for leases in the coastal plain all the time, and he believes there would be strong demand if the region was opened up for development.

It remains an open question exactly how much oil — and therefore revenue — could come from drilling in the coastal plain of ANWR, in part because it's been nearly two decades since the U.S. Geological Survey has conducted a resource assessment of the area.

This notorious invasive species threatens reef ecosystems in coastal waters around the southeastern U.S. and in the Caribbean Sea.

These beasts tend to dine on fish found in coastal and pelagic waters and occasionally marine mammals such as dolphins and porpoises.

«This study shows for the first time that the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide and ammonia from the bottom waters could be a major contributor to lower pH in coastal oceans and may lead to more rapid acidification in coastal waters compared to the open ocean,» said Cai, the paper's lead author and an expert in marine chemistry and carbon's movement through coastal waters.

Named after Ferdinand Magellan, who spotted the birds in 1520, Magellanic penguins nest in burrows and under bushes in coastal Argentina, Chile, and the Falkland Islands.

Native to Europe, these types of brown algae can be cultivated in coastal regions or harvested wild.

«Given how widespread low - oxygen zones are in coastal waters worldwide, understanding these processes will allow us to predict the acidification of estuaries under expected increases in carbon dioxide and ongoing mitigation of nutrient inputs by management actions,» said Jeremy Testa, assistant professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

«Policymakers in several countries, especially in coastal cities, are aware of the issue to some extent, but overall awareness on options to address sea - level rise is much [more] limited,» said Ancha Srinivasan, principal climate change specialist at the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines.

However, coastal cities worldwide have experienced enormous growth in population and infrastructure over the past couple of centuries — and a global mean sea level rise of 10 to 20 feet could be catastrophic to the hundreds of millions of people living in these coastal zones.

If this greenhouse gas finds its way into the water, it can also become trapped in the sea ice that forms in these coastal waters.

The Chilean earthquake also sent waves racing across the Pacific, inducing alerts throughout the Pacific Rim and causing evacuations in Hawaii, where officials remembered the 1960 earthquake, when a tsunami killed 61 people in the coastal town of Hilo.

The analysis revealed that, while the amount of carbon dioxide in the open ocean is increasing at the same rate as in the atmosphere, these same carbon dioxide concentrations are increasing slower in the coastal ocean.

Until recently, these trends were extremely difficult to calculate due to a lack of data about carbon dioxide in coastal waters.

Damselflies live in coastal forests that once formed a continuous belt in east Africa but are now fragmented, forcing the creatures into small, vulnerable populations.

Nature will only build beaches and salt marshes if there is sediment moving in the coastal waters.

In coastal protection, it can mean, for instance, artificially building beaches that absorb the power of storm waves, or encouraging the natural forces that raise and extend a coastline, including salt marsh, by ensuring a supply of sediment.

As the duration and extent of hypoxic areas is predicted to increase in coastal regions, it is likely that some species will be exposed chronically throughout their life cycle.

An archeologist from Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute is among a team of scientists who made a groundbreaking discovery in Huaca Prieta in coastal Peru — home to one of the earliest and largest pyramids in South America.

Crop production in coastal areas is threatened by seawater intrusion, which increases soil salinity.

Two samples of Ulva spp., that were deployed near shore on Maui, show large differences due to growth in coastal waters that have either high (left) or low (right) levels of SGD - derived nitrogen.

BUT no effort to slow development in coastal area's or more seriously, ration gas and energy.

In the 2000s, under public pressure, EU fleets stopped fishing in coastal waters off much of West Africa, except Mauritania and Morocco.