... fisheries catch could result in as much as 30 per cent of the British Columbia coastal ecosystems being protected from overfishing, according to a new study from the UBC Fisheries Centre. The study, ...
... he found to do so. That means fishery managers, scientists or others could misjudge the health of a coastal ecosystem by the abundance of a particular species, while failing to see the losses of other ...
... to changes in urbanization or climate, and help discern natural from human-driven influences on coastal ecosystems.
Using this new technique will allow coastal researchers and managers to document ...
... nearby and those who want to enjoy the state's property.
Feagin, who admits a passion for coastal ecosystems, said four elements are impacted as a hurricane rolls over a barrier island: beaches erode ...
... multiple runs of their regional model to compare simulations of the coastal climate for two time periods: 1968 ... -rich deep water to support thriving coastal ecosystems. But researchers think too much ...
... fresh waters, and ignoring nitrogen inputs, existing management strategies are exacerbating the decline of coastal ecosystems. We need to stop passing the problem downstream and adopt dual-nutrient ...
... commonly used in commercial goods as flame retardants since the 1970s, are found in all United States coastal waters and the Great Lakes, with elevated levels near urban and industrial centers. The ...
... of growing urban centers, artificially hardened shorelines and declining natural resources has pushed coastal ecosystems out of balance. Globally, we lose a seagrass meadow the size of a soccer field ...
... with droughts in general, the desiccation and disappearance of lagoons could become more widespread, not only in south western Europe, but also in other Mediterranean coastal ecosystems," Sousa warns.
... the nitrogen lost from seagrasses is still retained. Seagrass fields are coastal ecosystems with important functions for coastal stability and fish populations. The collection and grazing of seagrass ...
Waters acidic enough to corrode seashells are already raking shores in northern California, reveals a new study of the effects of carbon emissions on the oceans.
... paper in the journal Science, "Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems," in which they made the case that environments that we perceive as relatively pristine have, in ...
... . For example, one unanswered question: does the toxic form of mercury produced and bioaccumulated in coastal ecosystems end up in fish such as tuna caught in the open ocean?
"We are intimately ...
... are optimal for Wiencke and his colleagues: "We want to observe the development of marine coastal ecosystems in the face of global climate change. Not only an increased ultraviolet radiation plays a ...
It was a violent dose of nature to a coast already hammered by decades of pollution, population growth and habitat loss. As scientists and land managers start to assess the storm's impacts on beaches ...
