Impacts on coral reefs in Oman were found to be attributable to both natural and human causes, resulting in significant and widespread degradation. Damage resulting from fisheries activities was the most commonly recorded human impact, with the most severe effects. Other human impacts resulted from ...
from The Huffington Post, there are over 2,500 species of coral alone, and they could all be threatened by the year 2050. Humans uphold the biggest influence on the diminishing reefs through overfishing, construction, and pollution, but we can also have the biggest impact to help these strang...
However, these climate change-driven declines are outweighed by the impact of deforestation. Consequently, our analyses suggest that regional land-use management is more important than mediating climate change for influencing sedimentation of Malagasy coral reefs....
Market gravity is a measurement of human impact on a location that is a function of both accessibility in terms of travel times to markets and the size of these markets (i.e., human population size [Cinner et al., 2018]). We included reef structural complexity as a factor in the model...
Impacts of human activities on the ocean have been shown to be substantial, ubiquitous1 and changing2. The resulting cumulative impact of these activities often leads to ecosystem degradation or even collapse3,4,5,6,7, and studies of individual marine ecosystems (e.g., coral reefs, kelp fores...
nourishment predominantly impact coastal food webs from the bottom up; predators are affected by reduction in the abundance and diversity of their prey (Chapman et al.2009; Vargas-Fonseca et al.2016). These effects reduce the prevalence and abundance of sensitive species, especially larger predators...
The researchers found little wilderness remaining in coastal habitats such as coral reefs because of the nearby human activities. Most marine wilderness was located in the Arctic and Antarctic or around remote Pacific island nations such as French Polynesia. ...
Determining the ecological impact of hu- man activities on the oceans requires a method for translating human activities into ecosystem- specific impacts and spatial data for the activi- ties and ecosystems. Past efforts to map human impacts on terrestrial ecosystems (12), coral reefs ...
However, we used fisheries catch as a measure of impact on ecosystems, which does not account for potential longer-lasting impacts of overfishing. We also had to assume that the proportion of catch per gear type remained constant within each EEZ, and so we may underestimate the impact of ...
4A). For other regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa, sustainable-use MPAs can also have important effects at a local level, but on aggregate at national scales, total impact is relatively low due to reduced total reef area and lower numbers of people living around reefs. Nutritional targeting ...