Sentences with phrase «many oceanic islands»

I had just started my Ph.D. studying invasive species on a remote oceanic island, where I would be spending most of the next 3 years bashing through rainforest to count invertebrates.

«If oceanic islands have been traditionally considered as laboratories of evolution and species - producing machines, Laparocerus will become the ideal guinea - pig for broadening studies in dispersal and speciation processes of all kinds,» say the authors.

The list included herbivores and carnivores from 25 oceanic islands and five continents, ranging from the woolly mammoth of Eurasia to the dwarf hippopotamus of Cyprus.

Often, the boundaries for a large MPA are simply the territorial limits around a nation's oceanic islands, as is the case with the Chagos Archipelago.

Land - use practices on tropical oceanic islands can have large impacts on reef ecosystems, even in the absence of rivers and streams.

«Any bird populations on the continents that could not withstand these levels of predation from cats and other predators would have disappeared long ago, but populations of birds on oceanic islands have evolved in circumstances in which predation from mammalian predators was negligible and they, and other island vertebrates, are therefore particularly vulnerable to predation when cats have been introduced.»

As I've pointed out repeatedly, the claims linking predation by cats to declining bird numbers are largely (other than on oceanic islands) unsupported by the evidence.

But, given all that's known about efforts to eradicate cats from oceanic islands, I doubt Akron's cat ordinance has made much of a difference at all in terms of the number of stray and feral cats.

Due to the species» status, as of 2014, there is no whale watching location in eastern and mid Atlantic, and oceanic islands feasible to observe right whales regularly.

Range The peregrine is found on all continents except Antarctica and on many oceanic islands.

i wish i could go to sipadan, the only oceanic island in Malaysia, did you have problems there with terrosists?

Sipadan is the only oceanic island in Malaysia, rising 600m (2,000 feet) from seabed.

This oceanic island is surrounded by shear walls of soft coral home to myriad of marine life and attracting large pelagic creatures such as green sea - turtles and immense schools of barracudas.

Cocos Island off Costa Rica, the Galapagos Islands, Socorro in Mexico, Madivaru Corner in the Maldives, and the coast of Malaysian Borneo which features oceanic islands and deep water atolls such as Layang Layang, are among the best dive locations for sightings.

Although dive trips to the island were being run by Borneo Divers as early as 1983, Jacques Cousteau's film, «Ghost of the Sea Turtles» brought international fame to Malaysia's only truly oceanic island.

Maybe include the best oceanic island records in the land station average, but how to adjust for that?

Like most oceanic islands, the Galápagos have a history of increasing fishing pressure dating back to European whalers, and culminating in recent news of the Ecuadorian government seizing a Chinese fishing vessel with more than 6,000 sharks taken from protected waters around the islands.

This not only helps to explains how estuarine crocodiles move between oceanic islands, but also contributes to the theory that crocodilians have crossed major marine barriers during their evolutionary past.

According to a study by the IUCN, 12 percent of marine species in the Gulf of California, the coasts of Panama and Costa Rica, and the five offshore oceanic islands and archipelagos in the tropical eastern Pacific are threatened with extinction.

Signed by Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla Miranda in an Executive Decree on Thursday March 3, the declaration formalizes the creation of the new marine protected area surrounding Cocos Island National Park to improve the conservation of this unique oceanic island, conserve an entire marine ecosystem, and protect a group of seamounts (underwater mountains) southwest of Cocos Island.

Not exact matches

The relatively low - density continental crust of the North Island, which sits on the Australian plate, is forcing the dense oceanic crust on the Pacific plate beneath it in a process called subduction.

Extensive studies by the authors over the past decades on these islands have documented stratigraphic, sedimentologic, and geomorphic evidence of major oceanic and climatic disruptions at the close of the last interglacial.

«Under climate change, the Pacific Islands region is projected to become warmer, less oxygenated, more acidic, and have lower production of plankton that form the base of oceanic food webs,» said lead author Rebecca Asch, Nereus Program alumnus and Assistant Professor at East Carolina University.

There is precedent for oceanic dispersal of Moggridgea: the spiders are also found on the Comoros, volcanic islands 340 kilometers from mainland Africa.

In the oceanic whitetip study, Demian Chapman, of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University, S.U.N.Y. and colleagues attached pop - up satellite tags to 11 oceanic whitetips off Cat Island in the Bahamas in May 2011.

When the Pacific plate lunged beneath the islands in the first of those quakes, it left the oceanic crust under tension.

Gates and van Oppen are aiming to look specifically at areas that have already survived massive bleaching events, such as Moorea in French Polynesia, the central Great Barrier Reef in Australia, and the Seychelles, where 97 % of corals in the inner islands died following the 1997 — 98 El Niño oceanic warming event.

The oceanic warmth disrupts fisheries and can bleach and kill corals — 85 % of Christmas Island's corals may have died in the latest El Niño, which ended in May.

And the oceanic crust has what appears to be a thick underplating of rock formed when magma that was working its way toward the surface became trapped under the crust and cooled — very much like the processes that occur under the Hawaiian Islands.

These islands are so - called «hot - spots» with lava formed from hot mantle plumes that up - well beneath the oceanic crust.

We may be able to use this new Tongan island and its evolution as a way of testing whether any of those represented an oceanic environment or ephemeral lake environment.»

Although a few of Earth's largest islands, such as Greenland, are composed of the same continental crust as the mainland, most islands are made of a denser, chemically distinct oceanic crust, created midocean by magma welling up beneath separating tectonic plates.

The zircons from Mauritius, it turned out, were hundreds or even thousands of millions of years old, although the island's oceanic crust was less than 10 million years old.

But in recent decades, up to 95 per cent of male oceanic crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus) on the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu have evolved flat wings, leaving them mute.

University of Rhode Island Estimates of contemporary global air - sea carbon dioxide (CO2) flux (Takahashi et al. 2009; Landschützer et al. 2014) suggest that subtropical western boundary currents (WBCs) and their zonal extensions are key regions of oceanic carbon uptake (Figure 1a).

Plastic debris pollutes oceanic habitats from pole to pole: it is found in the open ocean, on shorelines of even the most remote islands and in the deep sea.

I love, love the oceanic pattern complete with fishing vessel and a house - dotted island with lighthouse.

Malawi is landlocked, but as Lake Malawi has sandy beaches, uninhabited islands and numerous opportunities for swimming, snorkelling and water sports, who needs an oceanic coastline?

Experience and explore the oceanic world off the West Coast of Vancouver Island with SpyHop Ocean Adventures.

The prolific range of marine life found in these waters results from the convergence of five major oceanic currents that converge on the lonely cluster of islands on the equator.

Want to explore the oceanic beauty of the Solitary Islands Marine Park?

Established as a national park in 1981, Surin Islands are an archipelago of five islands in Phang Nga Province 55 km off the coast at Andaman Sea on the oceanic border ofIslands are an archipelago of five islands in Phang Nga Province 55 km off the coast at Andaman Sea on the oceanic border ofislands in Phang Nga Province 55 km off the coast at Andaman Sea on the oceanic border of Burma.

Besides blue marlin, there are many other oceanic species that can be caught right off the island, including yellowfin and blackfin tuna, mackerel, bonito, wahoo, white marlin and sailfish.

Liveaboard operators offering diving cruises throughout the archipelago abide by strict safety standards, are budget to luxury class, and are well equipped for oceanic voyages.Cruises will vary in length from 7 to 17 days to a huge variety of islands and dive sites.

The islands sit at the junction of five major oceanic currents.

Sitting 600 miles to the west of the South America coast in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the volcanic spires of the Galapagos Islands are an oceanic crossroads.

Turneffe Island is located 20 Miles east of Belize City, Belize and is surrounded by deep oceanic waters.

Watch this Bali diving video, that introduces you to the underwater world of this magical island, with footage of diving with manta rays, schools of batfish, the incredible oceanic sunfish, the Liberty Wreck, anemonefish, sweetlips and some colourful nudibranchs.

Come along on board our luxurious oceanic explorer, and join us on an exotic getaway discovering the islands» picturesque white, sandy beaches and a multi-coloured underwater world along uncountable coral reefs on the hunt for some of the best waves in the world!

The sandy barrier islands protect the lagoons from oceanic currents, creating a fascinating environment of twisting mangrove - lined estuaries, chaotic sand dunes and blooming desert plants.