Any marine biologist will tell you that a healthy shark population equals a healthy marine ecosystem.
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Coral reef: complex tropical marine ecosystem dominated by soft and stony (hard) corals, anemones and sea fans.
The researchers say there is likely to be major change to the Arctic marine ecosystem as a result.
This law took a long time to be put into place, and undoing it would jeopardize the marine ecosystem.
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Even seemingly innocuous human actions can have devastating repercussions for the marine ecosystem.
They also expressed concern for the fishermen in the area and restated their commitment to protecting the country's marine ecosystem.
He said the relationship between the planktivore fish and the comb jellyfish was the most important in terms of stabilising the marine ecosystem.
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"The orders of magnitude in which we are moving will help us to have a future vision of how the marine ecosystem of El Hierro would adapt to such changes, " he said.
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Having outlived the dinosaurs -- dating back some 110 million years -- the turtles are also among the most enduring creatures on earth and, biologists say, an important gauge of the health of the marine ecosystem.
All five participating countries (Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania and Senegal) are within the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem, thereby aligned across an important environmental transition which will be better identified and addressed by each of these countries if they understand features and processes in neighboring states.
Coastal communities and small island developing states (SIDS), which rely on marine-based ecosystem services for a significant portion of their livelihoods, will be the first to feel the impacts of increased ocean acidification.
Hamaydin says that the oil slick has hit more than 40 percent of Lebanon's beaches, affecting a fragile ecosystem and marine life.
Ecosystem services provided by coastal and marine habitats are of crucial importance for food security and poverty eradication, as well as many of the sectors currently driving the economies of coastal nations.
It provides an outstanding example of the interaction of marine and terrestrial ecosystems as well as extraordinary ecosystem productivity, largely influenced by the formation of seasonal sea ice at the lowest latitude in the northern hemisphere.
To mitigate the continued degradation of the ocean and its marine treasures, and to restore and sustain its critical market and ecosystem services, a transition must be made towards blueing the green economy.
The objectives are to quantify the ocean soundscape on global scales, determine behavioral change thresholds of various species, and examine the functional relationship between sound and the viability of key marine organisms, at an individual scale, a species scale and the ecosystem level.
Like the humble starfish that preserves entire marine ecosystems by eating mussels, the American public library is the keystone species in the ecosystem of reading.
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Fish and other marine life are starting to come back, and Nedimyer is hopeful that in time, the Keys' ecosystem will recover.
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