Sentences with phrase «in marine habitats»

Found in marine habitats with rocky or muddy sea bottoms and is frequently associated with kelp forests.

Worryingly, plastic litter currently accounts for up to 80 % of all litter found in marine habitats.

Members of this family are found in marine habitats ranging from intertidal reefs to the deep sea (to at least 5000 m).

In this respect, the spectrum of species in Lake Victoria is now similar to that found in Lake Tanganyika or in marine habitats, where fish with pharyngeal jaws have existed alongside competitors without such jaws for up to 60 million years and have therefore never become specialized for predation on large fish.

«Our results suggest that in marine habitats, free - living nematodes may utilize more diverse and generalist foraging strategies than previously thought,» Bik said.

It is therefore important that we prevent the accumulation of plastic and microplastic debris in marine habitats through better waste - handling practices and smarter choices in the materials we use.»

Dr Kerry Howell, Associate Professor at Plymouth University's Marine Institute, said: «This survey has shown that human litter is present in all marine habitats, from beaches to the most remote and deepest parts of the oceans.

Protein build - up is doubly dangerous in a marine habitat.

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«We can be in no doubt that plastic is wreaking havoc on our marine environment — killing dolphins, choking turtles and degrading our most precious habitats,» Environment Secretary Michael Gove said in a statement Wednesday.

@transframer — With all due respect, you didn't really address the issues raised regarding: 1) actual # of extant vertebrate species; 2) the fact that land inverts «breath air» and would have drowned if not accounted for on the ark; 3) that the dino genera identified in the wiki link far exceeds 50; 4) the need to account for extinct land vertebrates in addition to those still around; 5) that many marine fish would have died as their habitat's salinity dropped; 6) that your % allotments for food / water don't reflect the fact that many forms require fresh meat and / or eat disproportionately to their sizes; 7) the specific dietary / environmental constraints involved in the migration to the Ark and the return trips from Mt. Ararat.

Efforts include but are not limited to: developing and implementing marine habitat protection and restoration strategies, conducting ongoing coral reef research, training individuals in marine ecosystem research and management, as well as animal husbandry, the rescue, rehabilitation and release of marine wildlife including sea turtles, manatees and dolphins, creating programs to heighten public awareness of the ocean and its inhabitants and delivering marine education programs to communities and schools.

Commercial fishing is destroying biodiversity as miles of nets sweep up the fish in their path, taking other marine life and coral - based habitats with them.

Synthetic fragrances from personal care products have been found in marine and freshwater habitats, where they accumulate in fish and invertebrates.

The birds, pollinators, land mammals, and marine mammals in Massachusetts have already started feeling the effects of climate change on their habitats and life cycles.

Robert received a PhD in marine ecology from Boston University and has carried out research on salt marshes, seagrass meadows, and other coastal habitats.

Mass Audubon partner TIDE protects the 160 - square mile Port Honduras Marine Reserve and manages 60,000 acres of wildlife habitat including the Paynes Creek National Park for the government of Belize and protected lands it owns in southern Belize.

Riverkeeper, an organization dedicated in part to protecting the river and its adjacent communities, has responded that the plan lacks transparency, the Council was too hasty in approving the plan without adequate funding information, and did not satisfactorily address key issues related to noise and air pollution and the destruction of marine habitats.

Dr Ford, from the University's Institute of Marine Sciences, said: «One of the main reasons why invasive species are successful is the escape from predators, parasites and disease in their native habitats.

If these newcomers become established, they have the potential to become invasive, disrupting native marine habitats, says study coauthor James Carlton, a marine scientist at Williams College in Mystic, Conn..

According to a report from The Nature Conservancy (TNC), released this week at the International Marine Conservation Congress in Washington DC, shellfish reefs are the world's most imperilled marine habitats — faring worse than coral reefs and mangrove foMarine Conservation Congress in Washington DC, shellfish reefs are the world's most imperilled marine habitats — faring worse than coral reefs and mangrove fomarine habitats — faring worse than coral reefs and mangrove forests.

However, scientific assessments have generally ranked fishing and habitat loss as the highest threats to marine environments over past decades and centuries, while in this study, the general public perceived pollution as the highest threat.

As humans put stress on the habitats of more complicated marine creatures, Robison explains, «jellies, because they are relatively simple, cheap to build, and can reproduce very quickly, can respond to negative impacts on other kinds of animals by rushing in to fill their niche.»

«We used high - resolution animal tracking tools to describe in as much detail as we could the ecology of the mantas and their connection to this particular marine habitat,» McCauley explained.

«We posited that giant kelp fed herbivores in the system and provided structure and habitat for predators, and that it was fed upon by sea urchins and affected the understory communities of algae and sessile invertebrates in the kelp forest,» said lead author Robert Miller, a research biologist in UCSB's Marine Science Institute (MSI).

While most marine fish live in intertidal habitats, surviving the retreat of the tide by hiding under wet seaweed or by using temporary tide pools, mudskippers are uniquely adapted to a completely amphibious lifestyle.

Regional studies suggest that marine heat waves may provoke «widespread loss of habitat - forming species such as kelps and corals, drive shifts in species distributions, alter the structure of communities and ecosystems, and have economic impacts on aquaculture and seafood industries through declines in important fishery species,» they note.

The researchers looked at past associations between the threat of extinction and the ecological traits like species habitat zone, and examined the same associations in modern marine animals.

Scientists have long been intrigued by the marine biodiversity peak located around Indonesia and the Philippines, in the so - called Coral Triangle, which hosts approximately three thousand coral reef fish species, i.e. ten times more than in the eastern Pacific and Atlantic at the same latitude and in similar habitats.

S. rosetta and V. fischeri are both marine organisms, encountering each other in the same ocean habitats.

Osedax, commonly known as bone - eating worms, are marine annelid worms that are an important example of evolutionary adaptation to a specialised habitat: the bones of vertebrates sunk in the sea.

This data set is being used to inform the management of a new Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) that protects the only area of deep - sea coral habitat in English waters.

«Marine vegetation can mitigate ocean acidification, study finds: Conservation of shoreline plants and seaweeds could, in turn, help preserve shellfish habitats.»

Matkin said he also worries that blaming killer whales for recent sharp declines in marine mammals will give politicians and bureaucrats an excuse not to protect coastal water quality and habitat.

Due to their findings, the authors recommend efforts to conserve marine plants and seaweeds in shoreline habitats, including where commercial seafood is harvested.

In the European Union, among assessments of the conservation status of species and habitat types of conservation interest, only 7 % of marine species and 9 % of marine habitat types show a «favourable conservation status».

The A-list actor is promoting a proposed billionaire's playground in Puerto Azul, complete with a private airport and racetrack, that could endanger the marine habitat

«If you're basically farming a reef, you've taken a natural habitat and you've converted it,» says Steve Vollmer, a coral geneticist at Northeastern University's Marine Science Center in Nahant, Massachusetts, who feels that more needs to be known before embarking on such programmes.

The scientists said in their report that the model used in this research should work equally well in various types of marine habitat, including mangroves, temperate hard - bottom systems, estuaries and seagrass beds.

Marine litter can act as an enabler of this loss: non-indigenous invasive species often use litter in the ocean as a habitat in which to hide, as a platform on which to settle or as a transport medium for moving into new territories.

There are immediate reasons to study the vocal patterns of cetaceans: these marine mammals are threatened by human activities through competition for fishery resources, entanglement in fishing gear, collisions with vessels, exposure to pollutants and oil spills and, ultimately, shrinking habitats due to anthropogenic climate change.

They have been found in several marine habitats and animals,» says Rochman.

The analysis identifies habitat loss and hunting as the biggest reasons behind the decline of land mammals; marine species face additional threats, including pollution and accidental death in fishing nets.

Blue carbon markets, in which countries or corporations could offset CO2 emissions by buying carbon credits from projects that create or protect carbon - rich habitat, could become viable in two to three years, says John Bruno, a marine ecologist at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

The field study of an international group of researchers headed by Massimiliano Molari from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen and Katja Guilini from the University of Ghent in Belgium, now published in Science Advances, reveals how leaking CO2 affects the seabed habitat and its inhabitants.

Anemones are solitary beings, though spot prawns and other marine organisms, such as the rockfish in the picture, gravitate toward them for habitat.

These bursts were found in phylogenetic trees created for 22 microbial communities, chosen to represent a breadth of habitat types: plant, marine, and human gut and skin.

A 13 - year study of coral reefs spontaneously recovering in the Cayman Islands offers hope of refuting often doomsday forecasts about the worldwide decline of the colorful marine habitat.

But there are many unknowns about the current status of 11 species of marine mammals who depend on Arctic sea ice to live, feed and breed, and about how their fragile habitat will evolve in a warming world.

It also calls for creating «marine conservation zones» and would «pioneer a new system of conservation credits to protect habitats and create incentives to invest in wildlife.»

The sea floor is a habitat especially rich in species that produce calcium carbonate shells or skeletons — so - called marine calcifiers.