Sentences with phrase «many coastal ecosystems»

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.

Instead, a suite of regulations enacted from the 1970s to the mid 1990s helped restore southern California's coastal ecosystem enough for its white shark nursery to eventually start recovering.

If you've been concerned with wildfires and threats to our coastal ecosystems, food price spikes and other climate impacts, THIS IS THE TIME TO SPEAK UP!

Students use a spotting level to investigate coastal ecosystems and raise awareness about how their communities will be affected.

By providing a setting for the salt marsh to migrate, Rough Meadows is projected to play a key role in assisting this important coastal ecosystem threatened by sea level rise, while also providing tangible public health and safety benefits by storing flood waters and blunting storm surge in the important years ahead.

Evidence shows that if a spill were to occur, little, if any oil would be recovered, leading to lasting impacts on coastal ecosystems across the Northeast.

The Office streamlines these various programs into a concerted effort to improve community services, strengthen local and regional economies, and preserve coastal ecosystems.

That study found that a 1.5 degrees Celsius world would reach a peak rate of sea - level rise about 0.7 inches per decade less than in a 2 degrees Celsius world — a potentially life - saving reduction for some vulnerable coastal ecosystems.

The bay's aquatic vegetation, including seagrasses and freshwater grasses, is an important part of coastal ecosystems, says study coauthor Jonathan Lefcheck, a marine ecologist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine.

The Gulf of Mexico may be open for business and eager to attract tourists, but it's still unclear whether or not marine and coastal ecosystems there are healthy two years after BP's offshore drilling rig exploded 40 miles off the Louisiana coast, eventually releasing 205.8 million gallons of oil into the water column.

Their disappearance hurts the coastal ecosystems they inhabit.

Dr Svetlana Jevrejeva from the NOC, who is the lead author on this paper, said «Coastal cities and vulnerable tropical coastal ecosystems will have very little time to adapt to the fast sea level rise these predictions show, in scenarios with global warming above two degree.

Topsoil and natural vegetation would ordinarily filter many of these pollutants out, but the impermeable pavement that covers much of the surface where these pollutants originate carries it right into storm drains and into streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean where it can poison marine life — which we might eat — as well as entire riparian or coastal ecosystems.

The climate exposure of each reserve provides «first alarm» indicators about the effects of climate change on coastal ecosystems.

WWF says that rising seas throughout tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world have inundated coastal ecosystems, decimating local plant and wildlife populations.

These environments, along with other forms of coastal ecosystems such as tidal marshes and sea grasses, have been given the name «blue carbon» to differentiate them from the «green» carbon of other forests, where carbon is absorbed above ground in trees.

Around Cape Cod, a similar array will monitor the ecosystems crucial to local fisheries for up to five years, after which the moorings will be moved to study other coastal ecosystems, including the Gulf of Mexico.

Former President Barack Obama in 2014 made research on understanding carbon dynamics in these coastal ecosystems a priority because of their importance to the global carbon cycle.

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.

Likewise, coastal ecosystems such as mangroves and tidal marshes are proving to be a more cost - effective and ecologically sound alternative to buffering storms than conventional coastal engineering solutions.

An initial high - resolution study shows that off Peru the ocean layer called «oxygen minimum» where life is limited is sensitive to the intensity of the seasonal current from the equator that brings water containing little oxygen to the coastal ecosystem.

The report emphasizes that climate change and associated extreme events pose great threats, especially to coastal ecosystems, low - lying coastal areas and islands.

All this means that the long - term consequences for life in the deep water and coastal ecosystems in the Gulf remain unknown.

ONE of the worst hurricane seasons on record has devastated marine and coastal ecosystems in the US Virgin Islands, says the World Wildlife Fund in Washington DC.

«Coastal resiliency and disaster risk reduction have become a national priority, and healthy coastal ecosystems play an important role in building resilient communities,» said Holly Bamford, Ph.D., acting assistant secretary of commerce for conservation and management at NOAA, and co-author of the study.

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.

Anthropomorphic changes threaten the stability of coastal ecosystems, but whether economic growth contributes to such degradation is unknown.

«We compared many different coastal ecosystems and have made a clear case for including coastal wetlands in discussions about greenhouse gas mitigation,» said Ariana Sutton - Grier, an assistant research scientist at UMD's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and a co-lead author of the research paper.

They found that all 15 human impacts increased after 1978, even though population growth remained constant, suggesting that economic growth contributed to coastal ecosystem decline.

In the meantime, they have their fingers crossed that the dispersant at least prevents the oil from washing ashore, where it mucks up delicate coastal ecosystems.

Dr. Martone's analyses of the effects of sea otters on kelp forest ecosystems can help shape predictions of how climate change and trophic cascades, in concert with other drivers, affect coastal ecosystems.

Only the investigation of population - wide effects makes it possible to draw conclusions for coastal ecosystems.»

But the high death count and presence of myriad secondary infections have led some researchers to suspect a wider problem — namely, a coastal ecosystem possibly sickened by human activity.

In an influential 2001 paper [subscription required], Jackson had already described the ripple effects of overfishing on coastal ecosystems.

Some of the 30 studies suggest features of coastal ecosystems may even protect the built environment during a natural disaster.

Superstorm Sandy in 2012 was a disaster for the places where humans live, but not for natural coastal ecosystems.

«Along the West Coast, mussels are well - known ecosystem engineers,» said Bruce Menge, an Oregon State University researcher who studies how climate impacts coastal ecosystems.

This productive partnership has been providing Canadian researchers and their international colleagues with the ability to monitor and understand the impacts of climate change and resource development on Arctic marine and coastal ecosystems and northern communities since 2003.

The team measured monthly changes in seven functions for which coastal ecosystems are highly valued.

«Invasive plant species can enhance coastal ecosystems: Better to have non-native habitat than none at all.»

If humans want to reap the benefits of the full range of functions that salt marshes and other coastal ecosystems provide, we need to preserve the right mix of species, they said.

But these are often limited to surface or coastal ecosystems.

«Monitoring the health and vitality of our nation's oceans, waterways, and watersheds is critical as we work to preserve and protect coastal ecosystems,» said Kathryn D. Sullivan, Ph.D., acting under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and acting NOAA administrator.

«Forecasting how a major coastal ecosystem, the Chesapeake Bay, responds to decreasing nutrient pollution is a challenge due to year - to - year variations and natural lags,» said Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

The aquarium trade and other wildlife consumers are at a crossroads forced by threats from global climate change and other anthropogenic stressors that have weakened coastal ecosystems.

Based on the available evidence, Isthminia occupied a high trophic level in a highly productive fully marine tropical Caribbean coastal ecosystem that predated the complete formation of the Panamanian Isthmus.

This makes it difficult for scientists to study the evolution of a coastal ecosystem from its unsullied state to its current condition, says fisheries and restoration ecologist Hunter S.

Human exploitation of marine species and destruction of habitat have been spoiling coastal ecosystems since the birth of the Roman republic.

We are unlocking the secrets of how these microbes affect coastal ecosystems.

Traces of salmon are found throughout coastal ecosystems, intrinsically linking the land and the oceans.