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From 1976 onwards, marine scientist Marianne Riedman, together with her colleague Burney Le Boeuf, studied adoption among the seals oe and why it was happening.

marine ecologist Professor James A Estes, cameraman Doug Allan, ecological economist Pavan Sukhdev, and lead scientist with the Nature Conservancy,

 The infrastructure for a marine community will be waiting to be used. Free floatingthe Seasteading Institute has also been dealing with the challenges faced by communities trying to live permanently on the ocean.

The glasswork houses a carbon capture system that works in much the same way that limestone is deposited by living marine environments.

Fishing on an industrial scale to provide for billions has altered dramatically marine diversity. Individual farmers breeding livestock or keeping chickens,

(but not people) There may be many similarities between the importance of large predators in marine and terrestrial environments,

and an international expert in the study of large predators such as wolves and cougars. oewere now finding that there are many more similarities between marine and terrestrial ecosystems than weve realized,

Dugongs are large marine mammals, similar to manatees, that feed primarily on seagrasses and are a common prey of sharks.

A more frequent information exchange between terrestrial and marine ecologists could provide additional insights into ecosystem function

The glasswork houses a carbon capture system that works in much the same way that limestone is deposited by living marine environments.

and not available for marine creatures) and contributing to algal blooms which can be toxic to marine life.</

</p><p>Some regions such as Israel have moved to highly efficient drip irrigation which directs water right onto the roots of the plant.

and not available for marine creatures) and contributing to algal blooms which can be toxic to marine life.

Some regions such as Israel have moved to highly efficient drip irrigation which directs water right onto the roots of the plant.

and marine mammals often when these creatures aren't targeted by fishermen. The worst of these techniques is the use of large nets (including dragnets seines and driftnets

or something that started in more recent times said Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand a marine geologist with The british Antarctic Survey.

This had a significant impact on the climate and marine life surrounding each continent. During the Pleistocene epoch glaciers covered central North america extending as far east as New york south to Kansas and Nebraska and west to the northern West Coast.

Due to the widening of the oceanssharks whales and other marine life proliferated. The Great lakes that formed in the western United states during the Eocene epoch were the perfect home for bass trout

This hypothesis accounts for the extinction of the largest animals of the time the dinosaurs and giant marine reptiles.

Seeds from eelgrass a type of marine grass found around the world can survive and germinate after being eaten by three types of fish one turtle

and one type of bird said Sarah Sumoski a researcher at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science

In the 1930s an outbreak of wasting disease and an enormous hurricane virtually wiped out these eelgrass beds which provide a bedrock for marine life.

Now more than 6. 6 square miles (17 square km) of lush eelgrass meadows line these bays according to a release from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.

At that time the fissure spanned about 15 miles (24 km) in length and 164 feet (50 meters) in width according to researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven Germany.

and climate change other scientists including marine geologists at The british Antarctic Survey are investigating whether global warming is thinning Antarctica's ice sheets and speeding up the glacier's retreat.

Serendipitously marine biogeochemist Eric Achterberg at the University of Southampton in England and his colleagues were taking part in a series of research cruises in the Iceland Basin region of the North Atlantic ocean both during and after the eruption.

or as my marine biologist friend says fish breed like rabbits. The Mozambique no-take zones are managed by the community fisheries associations

which is marked in the fossil record by an abundance of marine invertebrates. Perhaps the most famous of these invertebrates was the trilobite an armored arthropod that scuttled around the seafloor for about 270 million years before going extinct.

The first were marine reptiles including lizards and snakes. The second were the archosaurs which would give rise to crocodiles dinosaurs and birds.

The longer this wood sits on the bottom of the ocean the more marine organisms burrow into the wood

and during migration they eat marine invertebrates including polychaete worms and shrimp. Another video by Vyn shows a mated Spoon-billed sandpiper pair foraging along the edge of a snowmelt pond in Chukotka.

But marine biologist Peter Girguis and his colleagues tried a morsel anyway. We just took off a little piece

Marine biologist Win Watson recalls annual Make a Dish from Your Animal dinners at the Woods Hole Oceanic Institution in Woods Hole Mass. during the 1970s and 1980s.

But tasting your research goes far beyond the field of marine biology. Scientists'natural curiosity has led them to put some strange things in their mouths.

what sort of toxins or allergens might be present in poorly studied deep-living species said Brad Seibel a marine biologist at the University of Rhode island.

But Otto an entomologist who usually studies marine mites is working to change that. Livescience corresponded with Otto to hear more about his experiences with these remarkable animals.

and canola oil is not as potent as marine-derived omega-3 from fish. The body has to convert ALA into DHA and EPA

Now Raines'organization is scrambling to make the area a marine reserve before fortune hunters and scrap companies turn the forest into a fleeting memory.

Protecting the forest To stop that from happening Raines'foundation is campaigning to turn the forest into a marine reserve.

This is a fascinating study marine ecologist Ari Friedlaender of Duke university who was involved not in the study told Livescience in an email adding he was surprised  that the bowhead whale baleen functioned better at higher flow speeds than the humpback whale baleen.

After returning to shore scientists sifted through the marine life collected during the research cruise.

Scientists estimate that more than 95 percent of marine species became extinct and more than 70 percent of land animals.

which may have led to the collapse of marine ecosystems. Other scientists point to indications of a massive asteroid impacting the southernmost tip of the C# in

Eighty percent of the planet's species died off at the end of the Cretaceous period 65.5 million years ago including most marine life in the upper ocean as well as swimmers and drifters in lakes and rivers.

A new model of the disaster finds that the impact would have inundated Earth's atmosphere with sulfur trioxide from sulfate-rich marine rocks called anhydrite vaporized by the blast.

whether the impact would have produced enough global acid rain to account for the worldwide extinction of marine life.

Later in the Triassic ichthyosaurs evolved into purely marine forms with dolphin-shaped bodies and long-toothed snouts.

The contrast between the desolate white continent above and the explosion of bizarre and beautiful marine life below is just extraordinary.

Numerous new fungi related to Malassezia (a yeast that causes dandruff in humans) have been found in marine subsurface sediments in the South china sea by Chinese researchers from Zhongshan (Sun Yatsen) University

Blue oak trees along the California coast are particularly sensitive to winter precipitation Bryan Black assistant professor of marine science at the University of Texas at Austin told Live Science.

and the well-being of the marine ecosystem Black explained. The winters we see robust growth in the trees we see poor growth in the marine ecosystem Black said.

Coastal upwelling happens during the winter when a strong high-pressure weather system develops along the west coast of the continent.

These organisms are the backbone of the marine ecosystem and support huge populations of fish and seabirds.

This makes it difficult for marine scientists to spot any long-term trends. By studying tree-ring patterns however researchers can piece together a much longer record of how coastal upwelling has changed.

To determine how upwelling influenced marine life the researchers used data on yearly fish population growth since the 1940s along with data on seabird egg laying and the survival of baby seabirds since the 1970s.

Marine sediment cores and imaging of the seafloor suggest this ice shelf started collapsing about 10600 years ago

Regardless of their age the marine tuberculosis strains appear to have been replaced completely by European strains following contact Bos said.

and became the dominant marine predators. Placoderms had simple jaws but not true teeth. Instead their mouths contained bony structures used to crush

There are these persistent 20-year periods where there are extreme shifts in climate system the study's head author Ian Goodwin a marine climatologist

and marine geologist at Macquarie University in Sydney told Live Science. We show that the sailing canoe in its basic form would have been able to make these voyages purely through downwind sailing.

When the International Census of Marine Microbes (ICOMM) kicked off in 2003 microbiologists had identified 6,

Marine protection: The british government has announced that it will create a huge marine reserve around the Chagos islands, an archipelago of more than 50 islands in The british Indian ocean Territory.

The order, due mid-2013, was postponed in March 2009 frustrating British marine scientists because of rising costs due to exchange rate fluctuations.

These included projects on marine tourism mangrove restoration and agroforestry. But more often, the team found, projects had little or no economic benefit for the poorest people.

director of the marine climate change programme at Conservation International, the environmental group in WASHINGTON DC that has been promoting the concept alongside the International Union for Conservation of Nature in Gland, Switzerland,

But Crooks points out that marine carbon circulation models have tended to consider wetlands'current carbon sequestration abilities,

-and fish and marine algae to doses several thousand times greater-than are considered generally safe. Radioecologists with The french Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety (ISRN) in Cadarache converted concentrations of radioisotopes measured in the soil and seawater into the actual doses that various groups of wildlife were likely

with iodine-131 and caesium-137 being the most abundant (see'Radiation release will hit marine life').

Coming up 14 18 may The science and politics of protecting marine life is the focus of the 2nd International Marine Conservation Congress in Victoria,

Marine reserve Australia has unveiled plans to create one of the world's biggest marine reserves.

marine mammals and other sometimes controversial topics, prohibits agency employees from distorting science and protects the rights of NOAA scientists to speak openly about their work

So using Vibrio splendidus, a marine microbe that can digest brown seaweed, Yoshikuni and his team isolated a biochemical pathway that breaks down alginate.

Marine reserves Australia s government has unveiled its final plans to create what will be the world s largest network of marine reserves,

covering 3. 1 Â million square kilometres of ocean along the nation s coasts. Researchers were worried by draft proposals last year (see Nature 480,14-15;

allows sensitive measurements of calcium carbonate uptake in the skeletons of marine organisms, affected by acidifying oceans.

marine scientists plan out an international network to monitor the acidification of the oceans. go. nature. com/lopgt6

including microbiologist Sarkis Mazmanian, astronomer Olivier Guyon and marine ecologist Nancy Rabalais. The awards, popularly known as genius grants, come with no strings attached as to how the money is spent. see go. nature. com/ru2vgy for more.

Previously, CITES delegates have hesitated to interfere with trade in commercially valuable marine species, say many campaigners.

In the second study, a team led by St andrews marine mammal science student Jenny Allen examined 27 years of whale-watching data from the Gulf of Maine, off the eastern coast of the United states,

"We eat marine food too, she says.""Maybe they will stop and think,'what can we do to keep the oceans clean

Marine-reserve veto Proposals to create two huge marine reserves in Antarctic waters were blocked by Russia on 16 Â July at an international meeting in Bremerhaven, Germany.

This is the conclusion of two reports published on 20 Â February detailing the state of the continent s marine ecosystems.

When a corpse turns up in a marine environment whether as a result of murder accident or tsunami coroners and pathologists don't have the information they need to determine even the time of death.

In 2000 forensics researcher Gail Anderson of Simon Fraser University in British columbia was the first to simulate a marine grave;

Before 12000 years that record consists of data from marine sediments. This method not only allows scientists to get more accurate ages

Even 10 percent is brutal says marine physicist Tim Barnett of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

The study appears in the online edition of Marine Policy. The authors are: Carissa Klein of the University of Queensland;

Fiji is to be commended for their constructive response to the findings of this important scientific research said Dr. Caleb Mcclennen Director of the WCS Marine Program.

Furthermore food provisioning by tourists on beaches has encouraged the iguanas to spend disproportionate amounts of time foraging in the area rather than further in the island resulting in higher levels of marine life being ingested.

and gain insight into how plant invasions changed over time without management said D'Antonio who also is a professor in the Department of Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology.

At the root of their quest is a climate transition that marine-sediment studies reveal happened some 1. 2 million years to 900000 years ago.

and they're sensitive to marine conditions so they actually may tell you more about what's happening over the ocean than they do about

and climate interacted with vegetation soil and marine ecosystems between 1861 and 2005. The GFDL model predicted changes in climate and in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide based on fossil fuel emissions of carbon.

In a previous study they found that a group of marine sticklebacks from the Pacific ocean in Japan schooled strongly

This time around the researchers used lab-raised hybrids of the strongly schooling saltwater-dwelling marine sticklebacks and the schooling-averse sticklebacks that live in freshwater.

and Aquaculture the team has proven that a completely plant-based food combination can support fast-growing marine carnivores like cobia

and potentially other high-value high-value marine carnivores. Fish meal was replaced with a food made of corn wheat and soy.

#Disappearance of coral reefs, drastically altered marine food web on the horizonif history's closest analog is any indication the look of the oceans will change drastically in the future as the coming greenhouse world alters marine food webs

and pollination systems said Scott Hodges professor in the Department of Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology.

Conversely great differences in appearance can suggest a very distant relationship as in many adult marine fish species.

Carole Baldwin a zoologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural history examined more than 200 species of marine fishes in their larval stage primarily from the western Caribbean.

but color patterns in marine fish larvae have largely been neglected said Baldwin. Yet the larval stages of many marine fishes have subtle to striking ephemeral color patterns that can potentially tell us a lot about a species'place on the taxonomic family tree.

More investigation of larval color patterns in marine fish is needed to fully assess their value in phylogenic reconstruction said Baldwin.

which can have profound influences on the most significant environmental processes from plant growth and health to nutrient cycles in terrestrial and marine environments the global carbon cycle and possibly even climate processes.

Scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research have been following this natural spectacle via Earth observation satellites Terrasar-X from the German Space agency (DLR)

The above story is provided based on materials by Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research.

To take the temperature of the past we rely on indirect evidence like oxygen isotope ratios in the fossil shells of marine organisms

For example tunas and marlins are both fast-swimming marine fishes with large streamlined bodies yet they appear on very different branches of the tree.

and other marine life cannot survive#Rabalais explained.##oethe oxygen disappears as a result of fertilizer that washes off farm fields in the Midwest into the Mississippi river.

Oil spills and other local pollution compound those negative effects on marine life Rabalais noted By day 77 of the Deepwater horizon disaster for instance the oil slick had covered about one-third of the Dead Zone making it even more inhospitable.

They encourage beachcombers--the natural beach balls are likely to attract the curiosity of kids in particular--to contact the Department of Marine Resources (Maine:

http://www. wildlife. state. nh. us/marine/;/Massachusetts: http://www. mass. gov/dfwele/dmf/)when they find C. peregrina.

and its livelihood and well-being depend on services provided by marine ecosystems said JPL's Marc Simard one of the campaign's many principal investigators.

#Tiny grazers play key role in marine ecosystem healthtiny sea creatures no bigger than a thumbtack are being credited for playing a key role in helping provide healthy habitats for many kinds of seafood according to a new study

by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and U s. Geological Survey. The little crustacean grazers some resembling tiny shrimp are critical in protecting seagrasses from overgrowth by algae helping keep these aquatic havens healthy for native

and sediment loads that hurt seagrasses said J. Emmett Duffy of Virginia Institute of Marine Science and coauthor of the study.

This research by Virginia Institute of Marine Science and USGS researchers is the first in a series of studies worldwide on seagrass ecosystems.

Researchers at the UAB's Institute of Environmental science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) have analysed the potential of different species of microalgae for producing biodiesel comparing their growth production of biomass

Their study shows that one type of marine algae that has received little attention till now--dinoflagellate microalgae--is highly suitable for cultivation with the aim of producing biodiesel.

If we make simple adjustments to completely optimise the process biodiesel obtained by cultivating these marine microalgae could be an option for energy supplies to towns near the sea points out Sergio Rossi an ICTA researcher at the UAB.

The possibility of creating energy from hydrocarbons extracted from organisms like marine phytoplankton the so-called third-generation biodiesel has several advantages.

Finally marine algae are not a priori sources of food for human consumption which avoids the ethical problem of monoculture to provide fuel rather than food.

and Technology (ICTA) and involved researchers from the Department of Marine and Oceanographic Biology of the Institute of Marine Sciences of the CSIC from the UAB spin-off Inã dit Innovaciã SL in the UAB Research

Up until now the prevailing theory was that marine resources not agriculture and corn provided the economic engine behind the development of civilization in the Andean region of Peru.

Many of these marine processes are understood poorly in this context. We know very little about how the shrinking sea ice cover disturbs the balance of greenhouse gases in the sea in the long term says Dr Parmentier.

Although the potential for CO2 sequestration in the ocean is associated large the risks to the marine environment need to be assessed adequately the authors concluded.

The birds ingest large amounts of marine debris--by some estimates 5 tons of plastic are fed unknowingly to albatross chicks each year by their parents.

The combination of marine and terrestrial data enable us to link the environmental record at specific fossil sites to regional ecological

The hypothesis suggests for example that marine ecosystem managers who want to help tropical fish should focus on sustaining foundational species in the ecosystem such as corals.

Reporting this month in the journal Geology a team of researchers from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)

What's more we're counting on Seafarm's cultivation of algae being able to favour the marine environment as a whole

Another problem the researchers will investigate in more detail is that really large cultivations of algae may prove to have a certain wave-damping effect that can influence movements in the water and the marine environment.

or other livestock in severely affected marshes can reduce the stem density of phragmites cover by about half in around three weeks said Brian R. Silliman lead author of the new study and Rachel Carson associate professor of marine conservation

#Changes in coastal upwelling linked to temporary declines in marine ecosystemin findings of relevance to conservationists

Along the west coast of North america winds lift deep nutrient-rich water into sunlit surface layers fueling vast phytoplankton blooms that ultimately support fish seabirds and marine mammals.

The new study led by Bryan Black at The University of Texas at Austin's Marine Science Institute

Our study underscores the fact that California is a place of high coastal upwelling variability said Black assistant professor of marine science

To study the effects of changing strength of upwelling on marine life the team integrated data on how quickly fish grew every year since the 1940s the timing of seabird egg laying since the 1970s and the fledgling success of seabirds since the 1970s.

what a synchronizing force it is especially across marine and terrestrial systems said Black. Researchers have used tree rings to reconstruct climate patterns such as ENSO before

Increased feeding by plant-eating tropical fish in temperate waters as a result of ocean warming is an issue of global importance that has the potential to transform marine ecosystems as has also been seen in Japan.

Enhanced ocean CO2 uptake alters the marine carbonate system and lead to increasing acidity. The ocean's acidity increase is already measurable as oceans take up about 4 kilogrammes of CO2 per day per person.

The potential consequences of ocean acidification on marine organisms are complex. A major concern is the response of calcifying organisms such as corals algae mollusks

and functioning of temperate nearshore marine ecosystems said Rebecca G. Martone of the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford university.

In coastal North america sea otters help maintain healthy kelp forests which benefits other marine species dependent on this habitat.

Many fish marine mammals and birds are also found in kelp forest communities including rockfish seals sea lions whales gulls terns snowy egrets as well as some shore birds.

The ecological impacts of a changing climate are evident from terrestrial polar regions to tropical marine environments.

Speakers for the symposia include marine freshwater and terrestrial experimental ecologists who will present their research

and decorated with figurines of the marine monster Skylla de Grummond said. Another was adorned with a bronze finial of the head of a feline with the mane of a lion

Morris has widened his research to include marine food chains and is also studying the effects of a range of organic flame retardants on the same terrestrial food chain.

and fishing--relying mainly on marine foods--to the arrival of'Corded Ware'settlements which we now know saw the introduction of animal domestication.

and grazing sea urchins and set aside one-third of its coastal waters as marine reserves says Ayana Johnson of the Waitt Institute's Blue Halo Initiative which is collaborating with Barbuda in the development of its new management plan.

The potential consequences of warming in the Arctic include changes in freshwater runoff and atmospheric water vapor and decreases in salinity that can affect marine biology and seawater circulation dynamics.

To finally get some data on the Eocene marine environment using these shark teeth will help us to begin filling in the gaps.

Additionally increasing the algae blooms would likely wreak havoc by decreasing the oxygen available for other marine life.

Alternative sustainable fuels are needed urgently in the marine transport sector due to stringent upcoming regulations demanding reduced sulphur

The most promising fuels will then be tested engine to assess their quality and use for potential marine transport.

This project will establish a knowledge platform for cost-effective production of all new sustainable fuels which have the potential to completely alter marine travel.

Part of a marine family known as skeleton shrimp only distantly related to the ones some humans love to dip in cocktail sauce this crustacean is the first of its genus to be reported in the northeastern Pacific.

Ocean waters are becoming warmer and more acidic broadly affecting ocean circulation chemistry ecosystems and marine life.

and productivity of many marine species. The rising temperature and changing chemistry of ocean water combine with other stresses such as overfishing and coastal and marine pollution to alter marine-based food production

and are becoming more acidic as a result leading to concerns about intensifying impacts on marine ecosystems.

The observed effects of climate change have an impact on people's health land and marine ecosystems water supplies and people's livelihoods from the polar regions to the tropics and from small islands to continents.

Severe and wide-ranging global changeswarming acidification and decreasing oxygen levels will change marine life. Warming has resulted already in plankton fish

As marine and coastal ecosystems change their diversity and the products and services derived from them will weaken.

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