Sentences with phrase «study marine habitats»

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This finding is startling to scientists who study cetaceans and other marine life, as it is becoming clearer that whales rely heavily on the integrity of their acoustic habitat.

If these newcomers become established, they have the potential to become invasive, disrupting native marine habitats, says study coauthor James Carlton, a marine scientist at Williams College in Mystic, Conn..

However, scientific assessments have generally ranked fishing and habitat loss as the highest threats to marine environments over past decades and centuries, while in this study, the general public perceived pollution as the highest threat.

Regional studies suggest that marine heat waves may provoke «widespread loss of habitat - forming species such as kelps and corals, drive shifts in species distributions, alter the structure of communities and ecosystems, and have economic impacts on aquaculture and seafood industries through declines in important fishery species,» they note.

«Marine vegetation can mitigate ocean acidification, study finds: Conservation of shoreline plants and seaweeds could, in turn, help preserve shellfish habitats.»

There are immediate reasons to study the vocal patterns of cetaceans: these marine mammals are threatened by human activities through competition for fishery resources, entanglement in fishing gear, collisions with vessels, exposure to pollutants and oil spills and, ultimately, shrinking habitats due to anthropogenic climate change.

The field study of an international group of researchers headed by Massimiliano Molari from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen and Katja Guilini from the University of Ghent in Belgium, now published in Science Advances, reveals how leaking CO2 affects the seabed habitat and its inhabitants.

Using empirical data from this monitoring and from ongoing field studies the convention would support, scientists could more thoroughly assess surveys» cumulative long - term impacts on marine life and identify areas where seismic activities should be prohibited or temporarily limited to protect important habitats or vulnerable populations.

A 13 - year study of coral reefs spontaneously recovering in the Cayman Islands offers hope of refuting often doomsday forecasts about the worldwide decline of the colorful marine habitat.

A recently published multinational study attempted to gauge the population trends of Arctic marine mammals and changes in their habitat, identify missing scientific information, and provide recommendations for the conservation of Arctic marine mammals over the next decades.

In the future, Stern said higher - resolution satellite microwave data might come in handy when studying the interactions of Arctic marine mammals with their icy habitat.

The study, «Hydroacoustics as a tool to examine the effects of Marine Protected Areas and habitat type on marine fish communities,» appears Jan. 15 in the journal Scientific ReMarine Protected Areas and habitat type on marine fish communities,» appears Jan. 15 in the journal Scientific Remarine fish communities,» appears Jan. 15 in the journal Scientific Reports.

«For instance, maintaining and promoting connectivity among habitats and protecting pristine or remnant populations of habitat - forming species — such as coral and kelp — can dramatically foster recovery after extreme climatic events,» said Giulio De Leo, with Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station, who also worked on the study.

Yvan Simard is a biological oceanographer using active and passive acoustics to study the marine mammals and their ecosystem, the multi-scale links with the oceanographic forcing and biological processes, and the anthropogenic imprint on the underwater soundscapes of their essential habitats, at the Maurice - Lamontagne Institute of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the associated research Chair at the Marine Sciences Institute of the University of Québec at Rimouski, Québec, Cmarine mammals and their ecosystem, the multi-scale links with the oceanographic forcing and biological processes, and the anthropogenic imprint on the underwater soundscapes of their essential habitats, at the Maurice - Lamontagne Institute of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the associated research Chair at the Marine Sciences Institute of the University of Québec at Rimouski, Québec, CMarine Sciences Institute of the University of Québec at Rimouski, Québec, Canada.

Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), University of Hawaii, Whitman College and international colleagues will conduct the first systematic study of life in the deepest marine habitat on Earth — ocean trenches.

A core tenet of the Act is having scientists from the Fish & Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service study proposed development for impact on habitat critical to our endangered species.

Educational institutions throughout the world regularly station researchers here to study First Nations culture and the pristine marine habitat, including Orcas.

These studies covered the entire spectrum of waterworld habitats — the polar and temperate seas, the open oceans, the tropics, the coral reefs, the kelp forests, the marine estuaries, and the fishing grounds.

At stake, added Ove Hoegh - Guldberg, director of the Center for Marine Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia, and the study's senior author, are ecosystems that play vital roles in providing habitats for a vast array of marine species that are essential to the oceans» complex food Marine Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia, and the study's senior author, are ecosystems that play vital roles in providing habitats for a vast array of marine species that are essential to the oceans» complex food marine species that are essential to the oceans» complex food chain.

In addition to these mid-ocean ridge studies I am also involved in the application of similar marine geophysical techniques to study sedimentary processes and characterize benthic habitats in the near shore setting.

Circulation, hydrography, and most marine habitats and ecosystems of the SAB - Florida East Coast have been well studied (see Atkinson and others [67], [68], [69] for useful summaries and citations of additional reviews and original studies).

A rise in plastic dumped in the ocean is changing the habitats of marine life, a new study warns.

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Highly experienced in planning and conducting marine field studies and habitat compensation programs