America’s most special places will always be beautiful, but a warming climate forces us to accept that they can’t be frozen in time.
Among all UGS, parks and gardens were the most investigated, with less of a focus on urban trees, forests, coastal mangroves, golf courses, roadside vegetation, and brownfields/unmanaged urban greenery. Cultural ES were the most studied, although it is well known that UGS also supply many ...
How to Protect the Marine Environment The marine environment is crucial to the health and well-being of our planet. It provides a home for countless species of plants and animals, and plays a vital role in regulating the Earth's climate. However, the marine environment is under t...
The physical and geochemical controls on heavy metal cycling in mangal sediments, Wynnum, Brisbane Mangroves in Australia are recognised as having considerable environmental and economic value and as such are accorded legislative protection by state gove... M Clark 被引量: 9发表: 1992年 加载更多研...
Ao Phang Nga National Park has the largest mangrove forest in Thailand. Other than mangroves, one can see plants like pandanus, cycads, and euphorbias which grow on soil-less grounds such as the cracks of Ko Ta Pu. Under the shallow waters, one would see plankton in large numbers. Other...
Look for a little boardwalk with a sign heading off into the mangroves just before the main docks – just past the stand selling fresh coconuts! Walk a short way down this boardwalk stepping over napping sea lions (one barked at us, don’t get too close) and you’ll end up at a litt...
Many nations have created or promised to create marine protected areas – zones that may restrict activities like fishing, shipping and aquaculture. But decades of research have shown that not all marine protected areas are created equal, and that the most effective preserves restrict damaging ...
LITERARY STAR —“Bad Monkey’s Carl Hiaasen is the Mark Twain of Florida men,”by GQ’s Evan McGarvey. “For decades, Hiaasen’s visions of Florida have folded the state’s ancient beauty — mangroves, raptors, manatees — into the slop of now: buttercream-colored mansions built ...
One of the largest and most-populated, Hithadhoo is Maldives best island. With its southern floors being covered by mangroves, marshes, and shrubs, and the northern side being covered by an extensive number of cafes and bakeries serving scrumptious delicacies, this Island offers the best of both...
being about 15 per cent and just over 7.5 per cent. Those areas that are protected areoften poorly managed, too small and don’t cover the full richness of Earth’s environments: only some 42 per cent of 867 distinct types of ecosystem so far categorised are thought to be we...