Sentences with phrase «of oceanic ecosystems»

«The open oceans are a major global commons and require effective international cooperation and governance,» GEO - 5's authors relate, and comprising 71 percent of the earth's surface, «the potential collapse of oceanic ecosystems requires an integrated and ecosystem - based approach to ocean governance.»

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As a junior studying geography at Colgate University, Jake extensively researched the negative effects of single - use plastic on the oceanic ecosystem for his final thesis.

But the ocean is a huge, constantly moving three - dimensional ecosystem, and obtaining precise, real - time observations of marine life and of oceanic conditions such as temperature, current and salinity is quite challenging and astronomically expensive.

Thanks to high - resolution models of the oceanic circulation and water oxygen content, IRD researchers and their partners have now quantified this ecosystem's sensitivity to various disturbances in the equatorial Pacific.

Sediment - covered basalt on the flanks of mid-ocean ridges constitutes most of Earth's oceanic crust, but the composition and metabolic function of its microbial ecosystem are largely unknown.

[Tyler O. Gagne et al., Trophic signatures of seabirds suggest shifts in oceanic ecosystems]

«The data generated here establish a baseline to evaluate the impact of climate changes on oceanic ecosystems going forward,» Bowler added.

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

The large number of rare microbial species suggests that they have an important role in the oceanic ecosystem.

A remote expedition to the deepest layer of the Earth's oceanic crust has revealed a new ecosystem living over a kilometre beneath our feet.

Marine life is dying, and as a result the whole oceanic ecosystem is threatened simply by various sources of pollution.

Including littoral, wetland, and mangrove ecosystems, to seagrass beds interspersed with lagoonal reefs, to the outer barrier reef platform and oceanic atolls, this ecological gradient provides for a full complement of life - cycle needs, supporting critical spawning, nesting, foraging, and nursery ecosystem functions.

The game's environments are the stuff of dreams, with lush ecosystems varying from savage tundra to oceanic fronts to forests choking with foliage.

The importance of the site from an ecological standpoint is due to the richness of forest and peatland ecosystems and a high level of endemic species which had developed under both oceanic and Mediterranean climatic influences.

oceanic phytoplankton, a very high rate of species extinction, and severe damage to entire bioregional ecosystems (eg.

Thus, these microscopic bacteria perform a huge function in helping determine the oceanic ecosystem response to the cycling of carbon under climate change.

Biosphere (terrestrial and marine)- The part of the Earth system comprising all ecosystems and living organisms, in the atmosphere, on land (terrestrial biosphere) or in the oceans (marine biosphere), including derived dead organic matter, such as litter, soil organic matter and oceanic detritus.

True biotope entirely recyclable, this floating Ecopolis tends thus towards the positive eco-accountancy of the building in the oceanic ecosystems by producing and softening itself the oxygen and the electricity, by recycling the CO2 and the waste, by purifying and softening biologically the used waters and by integrating ecological niches, aquaculture fields and biotic corridors on and under its body to meet its own food needs.

The whole oceanic set of ecosystems globally will be able to benefit from that important flow of nutrients and the planktonic and other organisms that utilise them.

US CLIVAR is collaborating with the ocean carbon and biogeochemistry science community to increase observations and understanding of the coupled physical / biogeochemical processes that maintain the marine ecosystem and oceanic sources and sinks of carbon and predict how they will evolve in response to climate variability and change.

Impacts of large - scale and persistent changes in the MOC are likely to include changes to marine ecosystem productivity, fisheries, ocean carbon dioxide uptake, oceanic oxygen concentrations and terrestrial vegetation [Working Group I Fourth Assessment 10.3, 10.7; Working Group II Fourth Assessment 12.6, 19.3].

• Even without major change in atmospheric and oceanic circulation, local shifts in centers of production and mixes of species in marine and fresh waters are expected as ecosystems are displaced geographically and changed internally.

... The impacts of these changes on oceanic ecosystems and the services they provide, for example in fisheries, coastal protection, tourism, carbon sequestration and climate regulation, can not yet be estimated accurately but they are potentially large.

The net terrestial ecosystem impact is not much more relevant to the issue than the fact that the net of oceanic uptake and fossil fuel impact is also small.

This activity report showcases a set of case studies that present the work of a wide range of financed and supported projects that make a case for further investment in marine protected areas to restore the health of oceanic and coastal ecosystems, strengthen resilience in the face of climate change, sustain fisheries and other economic activities, and improve the lives of the world's poorest communities.

This would then lead to large, unpredictable changes in ocean ecosystem structure and productivity, on top of other large unpredictable changes to be expected from ocean acidification, the other great oceanic consequence of high atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations from fossil fuel burning.

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.

So, paying attention to corals that are helping reefs adapt to future oceanic conditions is proving vital to the health of marine ecosystems.

With the passage this bill, which I am proud to co-sponsor with Assembly Member Maisel, the possession and sale of shark fins will become illegal here, and we will join the entire West Coast in banning a cruel practice that is wreaking havoc on our oceanic ecosystems.»

This improved understanding needs to be incorporated into global geochemical models to realistically project the response of coastal and oceanic ecosystems to future warming.

Substantial biodiversity exists in both pelagic and benthic realms and along coastlines, in a diverse range of ecosystems from highly productive (e.g., upwelling regions) to those with low productivity (e.g., oceanic gyres).