Sentences with phrase «ocean habitats in»

The Great Barrier Reef is more than 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles) in length and is one of the most diverse ocean habitats in the world.

After convening a commission of experts from various disciplines to report on the state of U.S. oceans, his administration took steps to protect 215 million acres of biologically rich deep sea ocean habitat in the Pacific near Hawaii and Guam.

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He is also a commissioner for the Global Ocean Commission, whose mandate is to formulate politically and technically feasible short -, medium - and long - term recommendations to address four key issues facing the high seas: overfishing, large - scale loss of habitat and biodiversity, the lack of effective management and enforcement, and deficiencies in high seas governance.

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.

And the return to ocean conditions last seen in the Ediacaran period more than 540 million years ago — when jellies last ruled the seas — has been a boon for certain fishes in habitats like the Benguela Current in the South Atlantic off Namibia in Africa, where jellyfish - eating gobies have replaced sardines in the food chain.

While coral reefs make up less than 0.1 percent of the sea floor, they serve as habitats for about 25 percent to 35 percent of all the oceans» fishes, roughly 500 million people worldwide rely on them as a source of protein and for coastal protection, and they are responsible for billions of dollars in tourism and fisheries revenue.

Now, researchers have exposed a more accessible analog for extraterrestrial life habitats: microscopic pockets of salt water in the Arctic Ocean's winter ice.

SEALAB by Ben Hellwarth In the 1960s, as the underwater exploits of Jacques Cousteau dazzled the world, U.S. Navy aquanauts lived for weeks in pressurized capsules hundreds of feet under the sea — test runs, Navy researchers hoped, for long - term human habitats on the ocean flooIn the 1960s, as the underwater exploits of Jacques Cousteau dazzled the world, U.S. Navy aquanauts lived for weeks in pressurized capsules hundreds of feet under the sea — test runs, Navy researchers hoped, for long - term human habitats on the ocean flooin pressurized capsules hundreds of feet under the sea — test runs, Navy researchers hoped, for long - term human habitats on the ocean floor.

Using more than a dozen instruments placed around the habitat, including a first - of - its - kind underwater mass spectrometer that tracks fluctuations in key gases up and down the ocean waters, aquanauts watch readouts in real time on computer screens.

While oxygen is believed to have first accumulated in Earth's atmosphere around 2.45 billion years ago, new research shows that oceans contained plentiful oxygen long before that time, providing energy - rich habitat for early life.

«If the oxygen level in a given region of the ocean drops below a species» minimum requirements, it forces the animals to abandon their native habitat.

More than 540 international expeditions sailed to coral reefs, hydrothermal vents, seamounts, and open ocean waters to assemble a comprehensive picture of the diversity, habitats, and abundance of animals and microbes living in the sea.

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

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

These nitrogen - fixing, photosynthetic bacteria, also known as blue - green algae, are found in numerous habitats — in soil and lakes as well as the oceans.

He has long been obsessed with getting a mission to Europa, which harbors a salty ocean under an icy shell — perhaps the best habitat for potential life elsewhere in the solar system.

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.

And with sand mining comes disruption and loss of habitat in sand sources such as quarries, rivers, lakes and oceans.

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.

The models then identified similar upwelling and feeding regions in the Northern Indian Ocean that are also likely to be important habitat for the endangered species.

The model suggests that the distribution of blue whales in the Northern Indian Ocean may shift seasonally, following their food as monsoon climate patterns alter the most productive habitat.

The study — one of very few to examine plastics in freshwater lakes — indicates that like oceans, freshwater habitats are also affected by plastic pollution.

«As in the environment above the sea, we tend to think about movement in a horizontal dimension, across the breadth of the oceans, but at sea there are perhaps even greater habitat boundaries and gradients as species move vertically with depth.

«Data on blue whales off California helps protect their distant relatives: Research identifies blue whale habitat in the Northern Indian Ocean.»

Located in an area of the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion - Clipperton Zone (CCZ), the plan honored existing mining exploration claims while protecting delicate habitats by creating a network of MPAs.

The team is trying to understand life history traits of benthos at the initial stage and the influence of ocean currents in order to find out how these organisms expand their habitat and respond to environmental changes.

The authors suggest that the more often an animal reproduces, the greater the variability in the ocean currents that larvae can experience, and the more potential habitats that a dispersing animal could be connected to.

The first U.S. State of the Birds report came out in 2009 and established the precedent of using birds that are confined to specific habitats as indicators of the health of those habitats: oceans, coasts, wetlands, arctic, forests, grasslands, and aridlands.

The Eye sits on the ocean floor and quietly records bioluminescent organisms in their natural habitat without scaring them.

For that you ideally need to be able to study fish in their natural habitat, the ocean.

In order to get to those nursery habitats, the larvae have to be carried by seasonal ocean currents.

Along with one of his graduate students, he has managed to re-create the tube worms» habitat in the laboratory, the first time anyone has managed to keep the animals alive for more than a few days away from the ocean.

The list is long and familiar: too much carbon dioxide warming the atmosphere and acidifying the ocean; too much land being cleared, leading to deforestation and desertification; overfishing causing crashes in one stock after another; and habitat destruction reducing biodiversity so drastically that some consider a sixth mass extinction to be under way.

«The species lives in habitats that are exposed to large changes in ocean conditions and have limited scope to avoid these changes.»

«Developing baby barramundis, hatched in the oceans, need to find estuaries as intermediate habitats before they move upriver to complete their lifecycle,» says PhD candidate Jennifer Pistevos, who conducted the research under the supervision of Professor Nagelkerken and Professor Sean Connell.

There are several habitats once thought to be inhospitable to even the world's most adaptable organisms — places like the core of Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest region on Earth; ice sheet plateaus in Greenland that are 10,000 feet thick; and near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor with temperatures above 750 degrees Fahrenheit, to name a few.

Aside from changes in how belugas dove for food, the nearly two decades of data show that the whales were able to thrive in their summer and fall ocean habitats, despite less ice cover.

However, these well - oxygenated environments may have been in short supply, limiting habitat space in the ocean for the earliest animals.»

In nearly every instance, the toddlers» swimming behavior appears to help them reach or remain in favorable ocean habitatIn nearly every instance, the toddlers» swimming behavior appears to help them reach or remain in favorable ocean habitatin favorable ocean habitats.

This hidden ocean is, says Hayes, «the most accessible laboratory for prebiotic chemistry in the solar system» — a potential habitat for life.

After loggerhead turtle hatchlings leave nesting beaches, they live in the ocean for 7 - 12 years before migrating to coastal habitats.

Fishes» fear of sharks helps shape shallow reef habitats in the Pacific, according to new research by a scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.

To take a peak at this microscopic life in its natural habitat, a team of scientists including Hans Røy, a microbiologist at Aarhus University in Denmark, traveled to the tropical waters of the Pacific Ocean.

They live in all oceans of the world from the equator to polar latitudes, and occupy a wide range of habitats from coral and rocky reefs, seagrass and algal beds, to sand and mud soft substrates.

Researchers carry out innovative basic and applied research programs in coral reef biology, ecology, and geology; fish biology, ecology, and conservation; shark and billfish ecology; fisheries science; deep - sea organismal biology and ecology; invertebrate and vertebrate genomics, genetics, molecular ecology, and evolution; microbiology; biodiversity; observation and modeling of large - scale ocean circulation, coastal dynamics, and ocean atmosphere coupling; benthic habitat mapping; biodiversity; histology; and calcification.

After over three billion years of evolution in the oceans, multi-cellular life — beginning with green algae, fungi, and plants (liverworts, mosses, ferns, then vascular and flowering plants)-- began adapting to land habitats by creating a new «hypersea,» and adding anomalous shades of green to Earth's coloration more than 472 million years ago (Matt Walker, BBC News, October 12, 2010; and Qiu et al, 1998 — more on the evolution of photosynthetic life and plants on Earth).

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.

Bathyal seafloor habitats in the North Pacific, North Atlantic, Arctic and Southern Oceans could experience a reduction in bottom - water oxygenation by 0.03 — 0.05 mL L — 1 by the year 2100 (Table 2; Figure 2), which represents a reduction in water column O2 levels by 0.7 % — 3.7 % (Table 3; Figure 3).

A two - minute PSA about the importance of marine coastal habitats in mitigating climate change, ocean acidification, and other issues related to the increase in atmospheric CO2