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 ...
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. ...
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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 ...
freisingensisand †D. gaillardi. The basal divergence in the crown clade would have occurred around 13.4 Ma (Fig.1). This latter clade shares some non-exclusive synapomorphies such as the lack of lingual anteroloph (12 (0➜1)) on the M1 and central atoll on the M3 (52 (0➜2...
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...
Additionally, Ayau Atoll in northern Raja Ampat was also identified as an area with high revisitation. Across all the GPS tracks by individuals in each region, the mean total visitation time of the satellite-tracked reef manta rays in Komodo was the highest of all the regions, with 48.6 ±...
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. ...
with high coral cover and diverse and abundant fish communities. For the most part, reefs in remote areas tended to be healthier than those near population centers. But while the reefs surrounding Palmerston Atoll were healthy, and the reefs in Rarotonga were doing alright, Aitutaki's corals wer...