The Coral Sea off Australia's northeast coast is one of the last remaining places brimming with large predatory fish such as sharks and tuna, a study released Saturday found.
Ecology
Aug 20, 2011
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(Phys.org)—Is fishing alone responsible for stock collapses, or are there other dominant factors? Determining the causes driving changes in complex networks such as ecosystems is especially challenging. Until recently, ...
Ecology
Sep 28, 2012
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Climate change, fishing and commercial shipping top the list of threats to the ocean off the West Coast of the United States.
Environment
May 11, 2009
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Biodiversity is declining rapidly. Many conservation actions focus on single species. An alternative approach is to comprehensively improve ecological processes and habitats, thereby supporting entire species communities. ...
Ecology
Mar 2, 2023
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A 10-year study of Chesapeake Bay fishes by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science provides the first quantitative evidence on a bay-wide scale that low-oxygen "dead zones" are impacting the distribution ...
Environment
Jul 8, 2013
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new model that analyzes the complex factors involved in recreational fishing has shown that modeling can lead to some unforeseen results. Among the model’s surprising conclusions is that, under low ...
Will we soon be forced to eat jellyfish? Since the beginning of the 2000s, these gelatinous creatures have invaded many of the world's seas, like the Japan Sea, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, etc. Is it a cyclic phenomenon, ...
Ecology
May 6, 2013
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Nearly half of the fish eaten around the world now comes from farms instead of the wild, with more foresight needed in China and other producers to limit the ecological impact, a study said on Tuesday.
Ecology
Jun 14, 2011
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A rare three-dimensional fossil of an ancient chimaera has revealed new clues about the diversity of these creatures in the Carboniferous period, some 300 million years ago.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jan 17, 2023
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More than 900 new alien species have been encountered in the coastal environments of the eastern Mediterranean Sea in recent decades, including the poisonous pufferfish. The invasion of alien species has had the consequence ...
Ecology
May 23, 2011
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