Science news articles about 'ocean habitats'

... -minimum zones that intercept the seafloor, said an expansion of oxygen-minimum zones in the oceans could lead to diminished biodiversity and to the expanded distributions of organisms that have ...

... propose that it was the climate, and its role in determining the availability of favorable oceanic habitat, that restricted the distribution of the species they studied rather than the presence of ...

Great Barrier Reef coral trout have thrived under a fishing ban, showing that no-take reserves can spur dramatic comebacks in overfished ocean habitats, a new study finds.

... . "In developing countries, millions of local people suffer real hardship when reefs and ocean habitats are degraded. There is a social and economic imperative to protect them." According to AIMS ...

... is correct then the heat source for Europa's ocean is the ocean itself rather than what's above or ... form a new vision of the ocean habitat that involves strong ocean flow rather than the previously ...

... to analyze huge amounts of data on physical characteristics such as temperature and salinity in different ocean habitats and metabolic activity in marine micro-organisms. They were able to see in ...

... . Scientists and conservationists say recent research shows that trying to return stranded whales to their ocean habitats was impractical in the UK and that any attempts to do so merely prolonged the ...

... species and most don't seem to cross open ocean habitats. Ancient plate movements and the resulting sea-level changes appear to have forced some of the initial diversity among these ...