Sentences with phrase «oceanic islands»

Deep water currents well up against the walls of this world famous oceanic island bringing in the nutrients which support an incredible ecosystem where the sheer abundance of sea life can be astounding.

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

[1] Not surprisingly, the authors fail to acknowledge that «euthanasia» hasn't proven to be a viable [see Note 1] solution anywhere but on small oceanic islands.

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

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

inhabiting different oceanic islands, flies are strictly associated with the toxic fruits of the host plant,

This is especially true on oceanic islands whose wildlife evolved without cats and are consequently unadapted to feline predators.

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.

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.

Sipadan / Mabul: Deep water currents well up against the walls of this world famous oceanic island bringing in the nutrients which support an incredible ecosystem where the sheer abundance of sea life can be astounding.

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.

As a general rule single sightings tend to occur more frequently near to the shore whereas oceanic islands and sea - mounts are really where you want to be to experience a school in all their glory.

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.

From their native home on the banks of South America's Paraná River, Argentine ants have conquered six continents and many oceanic islands.

In D. sechellia and a subspecies of D. yakuba inhabiting different oceanic islands, flies are strictly associated with the toxic fruits of the host plant, Morinda citrifolia.

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

«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.»

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.

The base of the tectonic plates appears to lie 44 miles beneath the oceanic islands, on average, and 50 miles below young parts of the continents, the team reported in Science.

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.

In place of Darwin's oceanic islands, Hughes visits the «mind islands» of Native American tribes.

Each of the alleged extinctions took place on oceanic islands — situations largely irrelevant to the management of free - roaming cats in Athens, GA, or most anywhere else in the U.S.. What's more, only eight instances were attributed to cats exclusively; and of those, just two species are actually extinct.

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.

[19] They failed to acknowledge that this designation has mostly to do with cats» impact on wildlife native to oceanic islands.

This oceanic island located in Celebes Sea boasts over 100 dive sites, with 12 internationally famous ones including the renowned Barracuda Point.

In many areas (e.g. America, the oceanic islands of Tenerife, Iceland and Hawaii), there are tours led through lava tubes by a guiding service.

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.

Vast schools of fish swarm around this oceanic island and you will also encounter a jaw - dropping procession of marble rays, mobula rays and manta rays...

Freshwater lens - A lenticular fresh groundwater body that underlies an oceanic island.