Various biotic and abiotic factors appear to participate in governing the attributes of coral reefs and maintaining diversity in reef communities over time scales varying from decades to tens of thousands years.
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for example, include areas unsuitable for mining because of geomorphological features (e.g. seamounts in a nodule mining area) or lack of resource (e.g. nodule free areas), and areas with significant aggregations of habitat-forming organisms (e.g. cold-water coral reefs near SMS deposits). ...
Marine and terrestrial ecosystems are so fundamentally different in some aspects that many of the issues concerning biodiversity cannot be interpreted usin... Saleem,Mustafa - 《Ambio A Journal of the Human Environment》 被引量: 4发表: 2010年 Coral Reefs, Fishing, and Tourism: Tensions in U.S...
with marine and coastal environments, including coral reefs and related ecosystems, and in some cases ownership thereof, in accordance with national legislation, and that such peoples have an important role to play in the protection, management and preservation of those reefs and related ecosystems, ...
Despite the strong human impact the TSB still has significant extension of coral reefs, mangroves, and estuaries. Sampling was performed in the shallow infralittoral of two sampling sites: in a muddy sediment area situated in front of Inema Beach (12°49′21.9″S and 30°29′34.1″W), and...
Shell collecting, practice of finding and usually identifying the shells of mollusks, a popular avocation, or hobby, in many parts of the world. These shells, because of their bright colours, rich variety of shapes and designs, and abundance along seasho
Solnhofen Limestone, famous Jurassic Period limestone unit located near the town of Solnhofen, southern Germany, that contains exceptionally preserved fossils from the Tithonian Age (150.8 million to 145.5 million years ago) of the Jurassic Period. The S
Oceanite after 14 months of being in the Ocean. The Benefits of IntelliReefs Rapid Animal Settlement IntelliReefs accumulate healthy marine, curated communities and wild coral settlement within less than 14 months. Read more Increase Fish Stocks ...
The effects that demersal fish had on sediment resuspension in the shallow GOA reefs suggest that their activities may affect preservation of flood layers on the northern shelf. Bioturbation, defined as the activity of benthic organisms that alter sediment deposits from their primary structures on ...