Sentences with phrase «provide nursery habitat»

Newborn white sharks, as small as 4.0 feet long, regularly occur off Long Island, New York, suggesting this area may provide nursery habitat.

Estuaries are places where rivers meet the sea, providing nursery habitat for fish and shellfish while buffering many coastal communities from the impacts of coastal storms and sea level rise.

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They are also a rich source of food for people around the globe, providing habitat and nurseries for as much as one - quarter of all ocean species.

Non-market supporting services are provided by deep - sea ecosystems in the form of habitat provision, nursery grounds, trophic support, refugia, and biodiversity functions provided by assemblages on seamounts, coral and sponge reefs, banks, canyons, slopes, fjords and other settings (Armstrong et al., 2012; Mengerink et al., 2014; Thurber et al., 2014; Levin and Le Bris, 2015).

The natural resources support industries in Louisiana and millions of jobs nationwide, provide hundreds of thousands of acres of wildlife habitat and winter habitat for more than five million migratory waterfowl, and are the primary nursery for the food chain supplying the entire Caribbean Basin.

These habitats provide nursery and feeding grounds for many commercially valuable species.

Watersheds throughout Northern Vancouver Island provide critical habitat to many species, serving as breeding grounds and nurseries, foraging grounds, and providing refuge from predators and the elements.

Seagrass beds provide food and shelter to a wide variety of marine life and are particularly important as nursery habitat for young fish and invertebrates such as kelp bass and California spiny lobsters.

The Marine Reserve at South Water Caye is zoned to protect fishing nurseries and unique habitats; however it provides extensive multi-use areas for snorkeling, fishing, diving and educational activities.

As cattle ranches have displaced biologically rich rainforests, fish farms have displaced mangrove forests that provide important fish nursery habitats and protect coasts during storms.

Sea ice is critical for polar marine ecosystems in at least two important ways: (1) it provides a habitat for photosynthetic algae and nursery ground for invertebrates and fish during times when the water column does not support phytoplankton growth; and (2) as the ice melts, releasing organisms into the surface water [3], a shallow mixed layer forms which fosters large ice - edge blooms important to the overall productivity of polar seas.

They can also provide safe havens for species whose original habitats no longer suit them and nurseries to repopulate areas damaged by low oxygen and lack of nutrients.

They provide critical wildlife habitat and nurseries for nearly half of the nation's endangered species.