The atoll's Eastern Island, a habitat for millions of seabirds, could all but disappear if sea levels rise by 6.5 feet, or 2 meters, by the end of the century, the U.S. Geological Survey found in a 2013 study. The wider Hawaiian archipelago is also suffering from one of the worst ...
7], fossil taxa can now be analyzed either alone—i.e., morphological clocks [8]—or with molecular data in total evidence dating approaches [9,10]. These advances over the past decade have made it possible to infer the placement of fossil tips without prior...
The atoll of Diego Garcia hosts the highest nesting density of hawksbills and green turtles in Chagos18. The study beach is 2.75 km and is located on the south-eastern coast of the main island. It was identified as an index nesting beach for green and hawksbill turtles during previous ...
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In the between 4 and 28 January 2005. Clipperton is a circu- middle of the ETP, Clipperton Island is home to the lar, closed coral atoll with a ring shape, roughly 3 km in largest colony of masked boobies Sula dactylatra in the diameter and 100 to 300 m wide. It is uninhabited and...
remote Pacific Islands, Cocos-Keeling Atoll and Chagos archipelago have much higher reef fish biomass than islands and reefs near people. Much of the high biomass of most remote reef fish communities lies in the largest species, such as sharks, bumphead parrots, giant trevally, and humphead ...
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President Barack Obama goes off the beaten track Thursday—way off—to a marine reserve in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Obama will take Air Force One three hours west from his native Honolulu, to Midway Atoll on the far northwestern tip of the Hawaiian island chain. ...
prohibiting it from being fished commercially. This ring-shaped reef in the Indian Ocean was not studied extensively until more recent years. In 2010, a mangrove forest was discovered. The Great Chagos Bank is the largest atoll or ribbon-like circle of coral reef in the world. ...