Sentences with phrase «largest coastal ecosystems»

Consequently, models offering projections of future ocean pH and the saturation state of carbonate minerals only resolve adequately the open ocean and thus are incapable of resolving even the largest coastal ecosystems.

Not exact matches

This would jeopardize the lives of many types of crabs, mussels, and sea snails that live in tidal zones and disrupt the diets of larger animals who rely on them for food, threatening entire coastal ecosystems in the process.

The world's coastal ecosystems — areas such as tidal marshes and mangrove forests — have the potential to store and sequester large amounts of carbon, collectively known as blue carbon.

To that end, RCF operates a long - term study that examines how intertwined grizzly bears are with their chief food source, salmon, to ultimately inform ecosystem - based management of salmon such that the nutritional needs of grizzlies as well as other coastal large carnivores such as black bears are safeguarded.

The largest, longest program to monitor the health of the Caribbean coastal ecosystems, CARICOMP revealed that water quality decreased at 42 percent of the monitoring stations across the basin.

Extreme weather like droughts and large tropical cyclones would become more common, fragile ecosystems like coral reefs would be at risk of destruction and polar ice melting would swamp many coastal cities over the next century.

While small amounts of sewage can dissipate quickly, the routine dumping of large amounts of human waste has caused long - term harm to many shoreline ecosystems, and rendered many coastal waters unfit for recreational activities.

At the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef ecosystem at approximately 133,000 square miles (about the size of New Zealand), establishing the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in 1975 was a first step, but not until the park was rezoned between 1999 and 2003 was the reef given the protection needed to rebound from threats that include shipping, dredging, commercial fishing, nutrient and pesticide runoff, coastal development and diving.

It is considered the largest marine reserve in the Stann Creek District of Belize and covers 47,702 hectares of mangrove and coastal ecosystems.

The wild world of the coastal South Carolina ecosystem is home to hundreds of varieties of birds large and small.

Not only does this work help stabilize the coastal ecosystem, but it also serves to improve food security and the prospects for peace, and builds on one of Adeso's largest projects funded by the European - Commission — Your Environment Is Your Life.

This makes it the second largest coastal state in the nation, and the Hudson River Estuary coastline — a 153 - mile ecosystem — is a key part of the state's coastal area.

... The impacts of these changes on oceanic ecosystems and the services they provide, for example in fisheries, coastal protection, tourism, carbon sequestration and climate regulation, can not yet be estimated accurately but they are potentially large.

Alteration of tropical acid sulphate soils also releases large amounts of acids (Wilson et al. 1999; Johnston et al. 2009), affecting coastal waters containing vulnerable organisms, such as corals in the inner Great Barrier Reef ecosystem (Powell and Martens 2005).