Global climate change could explain the explosion in marine biodiversity that took place 460 million years ago, according to researchers from INSU-CNRS Laboratoire PaléoEnvironnements et PaléobioSphè ...
... and their component species. However, future studies are clearly needed as global threats to marine biodiversity put the spotlight on the vulnerability of coral reef ecosystems.
We now realize that ...
... asserts.
Almost half of the 450 communications at the Conference will address the loss of marine biodiversity and its consequences, whereas the rest will cover the exploitation of marine living ...
... for the end of IPY. It now serves as repository for scientific information on Antarctic marine biodiversity, and proudly represents SCAR's contribution to the global effort to explore and preserve ...
... with a tangible legacy in the form of a network of databases on marine biodiversity that will serve as clearinghouse for all biodiversity-related data gathered since the very first Antarctic research ...
... several sources, including the EU's MarBEF (Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning) research network ... scientists still find more than 100 new marine fish species in the sea is astonishing," he ...
... , pollution, overfishing and coastal development have already been targeted as the most significant threats to marine biodiversity in Las Perlas. Developers plan to build entirely new towns with ...
... (Valencia, Spain Nov. 11-15), organized by the Census's European affiliate program on
Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning, the report details major progress towards the first ever marine ...
... Cruz, and an expert in coral reef ecology and marine biodiversity. Potts will give an invited talk ... phytoplankton--microscopic algae that form the base of the marine food web--build calcium carbonate ...
... water temperature is colder at the surface than below, we are establishing the first benchmarks of marine biodiversity against which change may be measured, a significant polar year legacy for future ...
... named by the Commonwealth Government for the South-West Marine Region off Western Australia's coast. ... Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities (CERF) Marine Biodiversity Hub director Professor Nic ...
Because coral reefs are home to a quarter of all marine species, their loss could devastate marine biodiversity, scientists warn.
... $37,500 per year.
Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, lead author of the study, of the Scripps Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, said that although human density is low in the mangrove regions of ...
... , saying "freshwater biodiversity is declining faster than terrestrial or marine biodiversity, and wetland species are especially prone to decline and extinction."
The rich biodiversity of wetlands ...
... microbes, toxic algal blooms, jellyfish and disease.
Jackson, director of the Scripps Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, has tagged the ongoing transformation as "the rise of slime." ...
