in the ocean

... Cataloging -in- Publication Data. Pauly, D. (Daniel) In a perfect ocean : the state of fisheries and ecosystems in the North Atlantic Ocean / Daniel Pauly and Jay Maclean. p. cm. (The state of the ... hundred years of the appearance of humans. Thus disappeared the giant kangaroos and wombats of Australia 50,000 years ago, and the e...

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... Assumptions. The non-marine component of the technology sector already has been netted out of the activity estimates as explained above. Economic Contribution of the Oceans Sector in British Columbia2 6 Many ... variety of bulk, break bulk and container Economic Contribution of the Oceans Sector in British Columbia Prepared for: Canada /B...

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... populations. The 4 th algal virus workshop showed that the study of these ecologically important viruses is now massively entering the genomic era, promising a better understanding of their diversity ... results on the genomics of large /giant viruses kept turning up in many talks. In the context of a comparative study, Corina Brus- saard (in collaboration with the U...

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... [8]. The 4th Algal Virus Workshop made it clear that these giant algal viruses are now entering the genomic era at full speed. The amount of surprises that we can expect while deciphering their ... in the genomics of these large marine viruses, as they may provide new insight on the early evolution of eukaryotes. Not unexpectedly, close relatives of Mimivirus appear t...

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... thousands 1 1 â 20 01 by CRC Press LLC Foreword I have maintained an on-going and deep interest in the Great Barrier Reef ever since I was involved in the establishment of the Australian Institute of ... occurrence of the crown -of- thorns starfish, and of its adverse impact on hard corals of the GBR, grew dramatically in the late 19 60s and early...

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... for maintaining existing seagrass meadows or inshore coral reefs in the GBR. Quantifying the sediment-induced degradation of seagrass and inshore coral reefs is also the focus of Fortes (Chapter ... other reef systems, seems invalid. Further, non -reef (“inter -reef ) communities are shown to be important “load-bearing” ele- ments in terms of the integrity and he...

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... categories, including a 64% reduction in palm- and pandanus-dominated wetlands and a 55% reduction in freshwater reed swamps. Freshwater wetlands to the north and west of the confluence of the North and ... justified and require further attention. Given that agri- cultural industries in these areas are operating in the context of an ever-increasing â 2001 by CR...

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... cropping and pastoral activities in the catchments adjoining the GBR. CATCHMENTS ADJOINING THE GBR Continental drainage basins with an aggregate area of 42 5,000 km 2 drain into the Great Barrier ... catchment), then integrated fluxes â 2001 by CRC Press LLC 44 Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs of DIN, chiefly nitrate, leaving the lower catchment in ru...

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... Ecosystems of the World 24, Intertidal and Littoral Ecosystems. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 572 pp. Brown, B.E. & Holley, M.C. 1981 The influence of tin smelting and tin dredging on the inter- tidal reef ... 22, 46 73 . Macnae, W. 1968 A general account of the fauna and flora of mangrove swamps and forests in the Indo-Pacific region. Advances Marine Biology 6, 73 –...

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... 19 98 State of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area 19 98. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville. Wolanski, E. 1994 Physical Oceanographic Processes of the Great Barrier Reef. ... on the Great Barrier Reef: a review of patterns and causes. pp. 37–46 in Proceedings of the Great Barrier Reef: Science, Use and Managemen...

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... 199 7 Soft coral abundance in the central Great Barrier Reef: effects of Acanthaster planci and the physical environment. Coral Reefs 16, 1 59 167. Fabricius, K.E. 199 8 Reef invasion by soft corals: ... Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is part of the Indo-Pacific biogeographic region, and contains a subset of t...

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... determine the origins of lower salinity events (Ͻ34 ppt) within the reef matrix of the GBR. Further, understanding the possible fates of river plumes is a key question for the management of the ... rivers intruding into the GBR from Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya. The mainland catchments have been divided into 35 drainage basins. The two largest basins in this...

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... Lutjanidae, Lethrinidae and Serranidae (Epinephelinae) within and among mid-shelf and outer-shelf reefs in the central Great Barrier Reef. Marine and Freshwater Research 48, 119 –128. Odum, W.E. ... profoundly inter- connected system in which the non -reef communities are important “load bearing” elements in terms of the integrity and health of the larger sy...

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... 30 Explore These Web Sites 31 Index 32 Some words are bold the first time they appear in the text. These words are explained in the glossary at the back of this book. 4 Invisible Oceans The oceans ... living around the vent. get their energy from the minerals in the boiling water gushing from the vents. They live on the surface of the vents or on larger cr...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2014, 14:11

... live. 3 4 Ocean animals have special adaptations. 5 These help them live in the ocean. 6 Fish use fins to swim. 7 Gills let them breathe underwater. 8 Lobsters have claws. 9 They use them to ... waterproof feathers on their bodies. These feathers keep them dry. Penguins have flippers that work like fins for swimming. A layer of fat under their skin helps penguins stay warm...

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