Search results for "Marine ecosystem" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • times by sailors and those involved with marine research to describe this ... Another important threat to the marine ecosystem is unregulated overfishing ...
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  • * Salt wedge. River output greatly exceeds marine input; there is ... * Highly stratified. River output and marine input are more even, ...
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  • on limiting catch rather than proactive marine resource recovery measures ... modern era as each community, and their marine resources, became a part ...
    15 KB (2,248 words) - 13:06, 21 January 2023
  • the coral reefs kills them, and ruins the ecosystem. Up to 42 percent of the ... for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider ...
    13 KB (1,964 words) - 18:09, 14 November 2021
  • north into the Eurasian plate. A brief marine incursion marks the early ... due to more open landscapes (Haines 1999) Marine faunas became fairly modern ...
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  • in the skin. Eels generally are found in marine environments or, as in the ... eels) of the order Gymnotiformes; the marine family Cyematidae (bobtail ...
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  • is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA). in the world. In reality, it is a complex ecosystem comprising many billions ...
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  • floating houses, sustained by fishing and marine aquaculture (cultivating ... several geological states of orogeny, marine transgression and marine ...
    12 KB (1,782 words) - 23:30, 29 July 2023
  • ecosystems, they also can be found in marine and terrestrial environments. ... (freshwater planarians), Maricola (marine planarians), and Terricola ...
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  • length, are found in both freshwater and marine ecosystems. They often have ... drift in bodies of water) (Todaro 2006). Marine species are found mostly ...
    12 KB (1,482 words) - 07:54, 23 January 2023
  • (frogs), reptiles (turtles), and marine mammals (seals and whales ... of the Eastern Pacific. Most fisheries are marine, rather than freshwater; ...
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  • Eutrophication is the enrichment of an aquatic ecosystem with chemical ... bloom) disrupts normal functioning of the ecosystem, causing a variety of problems ...
    22 KB (3,105 words) - 06:56, 12 September 2023
  • However, a larger function for the ecosystem also is served in recycling ... an organic component, and even live in marine ecosystems where they are ...
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  • which weighs heavily on the its marine environment. The Gulf of ... area is especially rich in coral and other marine biodiversity. It also contains ...
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  • in which an estimated 22 percent of all families of marine animals disappeared and some 57 percent of genera (McGhee 1996). While the placoderms ...
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  • The Belize Barrier Reef System offers a diverse ecosystem and more ... habitat for threatened species, including marine turtles, manatees, and the ...
    15 KB (2,336 words) - 08:54, 27 September 2023
  • Limpet is the common name for any of the marine gastropod mollusks ... broadly applied as a common name for many marine and even some freshwater ...
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  • The Bering Sea ecosystem includes resources within the jurisdiction ... Sea green belt: Shelf-edge processes and ecosystem production," Fisheries ...
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  • large fish populations at the moment, the marine habitat is constantly under ... that combined land travel with sections of marine travel were later eschewed ...
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  • ;Commission on Ecosystem Management :IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management IUCN Commission on Ecosystem ...
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