Sentences with phrase «seamount ecosystems»

At the same time, coral mining and fish trawling, using nets that rake up everything in their paths, have created indelible scars in the spectacularly diverse and abundant seamount ecosystems.

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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).

These studies include seamount and chemosynthetic ecosystems intimately tied to planetary processes significant to the evolution of life on earth.

The dark depths of our oceans are home to cold - water corals, sponge fields, seamounts, hydrothermal vents and a multitude of other ecosystems that shelter strange and mysterious creatures found nowhere else on Earth.

Home to large marine mammals, such as dolphins and whales and an extraordinary diversity of fish, together with exotic sponge and coral ecosystems, seamounts are among the world's greatest marine - biological treasures.

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.