Sentences with phrase «of ocean biodiversity»

The absorption of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide causes irreversible ocean acidification, which the scientists say will cause «massive corrosion of coral reefs and dramatic changes in the makeup of ocean biodiversity.»

The new report will highlight untapped opportunities for both business and society, stemming from five risks: Resistance to Lifesaving Medicine, Accelerating Transport Emissions, Loss of Ocean Biodiversity, Global Food Crisis and A Generation Wasted.

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These 15 risks are: Lack of Fresh Water, Unsustainable Urbanization, Continued Lock - in to Fossil Fuels, Chronic Diseases, Extreme Weather, Loss of Ocean Biodiversity, Resistance to Life - saving Medicine, Accelerating Transport Emissions, Youth Unemployment, Global Food Crisis, Unstable Regions, Soil Depletion, Rising Inequality, Cities Disrupted by Climate Change & Cyber Threats.

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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.

With a Masters in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, she has experienced firsthand the devastating impacts of commercial seafood production on the oceans.

«Our proposals will raise protection and management of our seas to a new level, halting the decline in biodiversity to create clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas.»

The ocean has biodiversity hotspots that rival the richness and variety of life found in tropical rainforests, according to a new study.

A machine off the coast of Japan will take a variety of measurements hoping to improve understanding of oceans, climate change and biodiversity

In the analysis — this was [all] originally published as a scientific paper in Nature last fall and then we see it again here in Scientific American in a more a distilled form — what we show is that in terms of climate change, in terms of nitrogen pollution into our waterways and oceans, and in terms of biodiversity loss, we have already caused irreparable harm to the planet.

And across all scales, from very small controlled studies of marine plots to those of entire ocean basins, maintaining biodiversity — the number of extant species across all forms of marine life — appeared key to preserving fisheries, water filtering and other so - called ecosystem services, though the correlation is not entirely clear.

This research also was supported by the NASA, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through the Santa Barbara Channel Marine Biodiversity Observation Network.

To better understand the emerging biodiversity crisis in the modern oceans, Payne and his team turned to the fossil record as an archive of past planetary experiments in extinction.

Fine bits of degraded rangeland in southern Africa, South America, and Australia blow into the Southern Ocean, helping to sustain the rich biodiversity of those waters.

A study published yesterday in Current Biology suggests ocean acidification is driving a cascading set of behavioral and environmental changes that drains oceans» biodiversity.

Scientists are creating a massive global database of marine creatures, revealing tremendous biodiversity ranging from the ocean's shallows to its cold, dark depths

The consequences of global warming may be lower food production, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, worse weather conditions and poor access to fresh water.

Earth System Threshold Measure Boundary Current Level Preindustrial Climate Change CO2 Concentration 350 ppm 387 ppm 280 ppm Biodiversity Loss Extinction Rate 10 pm > 100 pm * 0.1 - one pm Nitrogen Cycle N2 Tonnage 35 mmt ** 121 mmt 0 Phosphorous Cycle Level in Ocean 11 mmt 8.5 - 9.5 mmt — 1 mmt Ozone Layer O3 Concentration 276 DU # 283 DU 290 DU Ocean Acidification Aragonite ^ ^ Levels 2.75 2.90 3.44 Freshwater Usage Consumption 4,000 km3 ^ 2,600 km3 415 km3 Land Use Change Cropland Conversion 15 km3 11.7 km3 Low Aerosols Soot Concentration TBD TBD TBD Chemical Pollution TBD TBD TBD TBD * pm = per million ** mmt = millions of metric tons #DU = dobson unit ^ km3 = cubic kilometers ^ ^ Aragonite is a form of calcium carbonate.

«They are the biodiversity hotspots of the deep ocean floor,» says Smith.

To model the projected impact of climate change on marine biodiversity, the researchers used climate - velocity trajectories, a measurement which combines the rate and direction of movement of ocean temperature bands over time, together with information about thermal tolerance and habitat preference.

New research into the impact of climate change has found that warming oceans will cause profound changes in the global distribution of marine biodiversity.

On board of this ship belonging to the Spanish Armada, and the Sarmiento de Gamboa ship belonging to the CSIC, researchers studied for nine months (seven aboard the Hespérides and two aboard the Sarmiento) the impact of the global change on the ocean ecosystem and explored its biodiversity.

MORE TO EXPLORE Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services.

The research provides new insight and understanding of the likely impact of predicted environmental change on future ocean biodiversity.

«Overall, the biodiversity and conservation management outlook for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean is no different to that for the rest of the planet.»

Thanks to the symbiotic relationship between corals and their solar - powered algae, «this miracle of construction creates the foundation for the greatest biodiversity in our oceans,» she said.

«The results represent a one thousand-fold increase in data over previous attempts to characterize ocean microbial biodiversity,» said a senior author on one of the papers, Peer Bork, during a teleconference for reporters on 19 May, «and yet, this is still the tip of the iceberg.»

The researchers found that diversity of marine life in the eastern Pacific Ocean is highly sensitive to declining oxygen levels, while CO2 levels were of importance to biodiversity in the Indian Ocean.

A new study found that vulnerability of deep - sea biodiversity to climate change's triple threat — rising water temperatures, and decreased oxygen, and pH levels — is not uniform across the world's oceans.

The deep ocean, which covers more than 60 percent of Earth's surface, is a biodiversity hotspot at increased risk from climate change.

Coral reefs have been called the rain forests of the ocean because of their vast biodiversity and genetic wealth.

Grassle solidified his contributions to documenting marine biodiversity by helping launch the Census of Marine Life and the Ocean Biogeographic Information System, which is an essential tool in marine conservation efforts.

Experts conclude that marine ecosystems and biodiversity are likely to change as a result of ocean acidification, with far - reaching consequences for society.

«The Earth is in the midst of a biodiversity crisis,» Sorte said, «and the Gulf of Maine is one of the fastest - warming areas of the global ocean, so the impacts of ocean warming are likely to happen much sooner there.»

Studies have found that kelp forests are one of the most productive systems in the ocean with high biodiversity and ecological function.

Marine biologists recommend that 20 — 30 % of the ocean must be protected to maintain its biodiversity.

To accelerate establishment of highly effective biodiversity refuges, the Marine Conservation Institute has initiated the Global Ocean Refuge System (GLORES).

To address the knowledge gap about the globally - relevant ecosystem process of nutrient uptake, researchers worked to identify how different levels of microbial biodiversity influenced in situ phosphorus uptake in the Western Subtropical North Atlantic Ocean.

Angel also argues in his paper that local dumping would cause «no impact on biodiversity... because the distribution of species are ocean basin in scale».

Lead author Matthias Schmidt Thomsen, of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, says: «We have known for some time that a reduction in biodiversity has negative ecological consequences, but predictions of what happens to an ecosystem have not accounted for the occurrence of compensatory responses.»

Bren Smith's award - winning 3D ocean farms can produce 30 tonnes of sea vegetables and 250,000 shellfish in an acre every five months - and boost biodiversity

Bathyal regions «have much greater biodiversity than coral reefs, which are often said to be the rainforests of the ocean», says Lambshead.

With such a powerful dataset and toolkit, we anticipate testing the predictions of biodiversity hotspots from stochastic modelling [28]--[31], as well as mapping functional gene ecology and activities throughout the world's oceans.

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.

Worm, B. et al (2006) Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services.

Her international research programme focuses on the impacts of global climate change and ocean acidification on coastal marine biodiversity and the consequences for ecosystem structure and functioning, and spans the UK, Europe, USA and NZ.

According to the study published in Marine Biodiversity, it was discovered in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands during an expedition of the Okeanos Explorer — the «only federally funded U.S. ship assigned to systematically explore our largely unknown ocean for the purpose of discovery and the advancement of knowledge.»

The quantitative population ecology of zooplankton with emphasis on zooplankton small - scale distribution and abundance, organic matter transport into the deep - sea, the biology of Gulf Stream Rings, zooplankton associated with deep - sea hydrothermal vents, dynamics of populations on Georges Bank and on the continental shelf region of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, acoustical determination of zooplankton biomass, abundance, and size, and the census of holozooplankton biodiversity in the worlds oceans.

A great deal of deep - seas biodiversity is concentrated around seamounts which are underwater mountains that rise 1,000 meters or higher from the seabed without breaking the ocean's surface.