Scientists track sharks picking DNA fragments from the sea
Marine ecologists have shown that traces of DNA in the sea can be used to monitor shark populations.
Ecology
Dec 4, 2017
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Jellyfish experts show increased blooms are a consequence of periodic global fluctuations
Scientists have cast doubt on the widely held perception that there has been a global increase in jellyfish.
Ecology
Dec 31, 2012
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Fish buffered from recent marine heat waves, showing there's still time to act on climate change
Fish were surprisingly resilient to marine heat waves before 2019, highlighting the need to keep seas from warming further, according to new research published today in Nature.
Earth Sciences
Aug 30, 2023
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Microbial Munificence: Iron acquisition strategies in natural bacterioplankton populations
(Phys.org)—Of the many microbes that – like almost all life – require iron, some live in iron-limited environments. What to do? Secrete siderophores, of course: small, high-affinity iron chelating compounds that scavenge ...
Scientists use hydroacoustics to find abundance of marine life in reserve is 4 times greater than in surrounding waters
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego were part of an international team that for the first time used hydroacoustics as a method for comparing the abundance of fishes ...
Ecology
Jan 15, 2018
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Scientists find tiny fragments of plastic in the digestive systems of fish pulled from the English Channel
The discovery, by a team from Plymouth University and the UK Marine Biological Association, highlights the growing problem of plastic contamination of marine environments.
Ecology
Jan 21, 2013
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Feds declare emergency as gray whale deaths reach highest level in nearly 20 years
Alarmed by the high number of gray whales that have been washing up dead on West Coast beaches this spring, the federal government on Friday declared the troubling trend a wildlife emergency.
Plants & Animals
Jun 4, 2019
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In hot water? Study says warming may reduce sea life by 17%
The world's oceans will likely lose about one-sixth of their fish and other marine life by the end of the century if climate change continues on its current path, a new study says.
Environment
Jun 11, 2019
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Scientist creates new hypothesis on ocean acidification
A Researcher at the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, an organized research unit in the University of Hawai'i at Manoa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology has come up with a new explanation for the effects ...
Environment
Aug 30, 2011
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450 species: Study suggests Mozambique Channel is home to second most diverse coral reefs in the world
(Phys.org)—Researchers announced today that the results of a decade-long study has shown that the northern Mozambique Channel has the highest diversity of corals in the central, northern and western Indian Ocean. The researchers ...
Environment
Sep 20, 2012
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