Tag: Marine ecology
Quest to find native oysters in UK waters. Wildlife photographers across the UK are being challenged to capture underwater images of the rare European native oyster (Ostrea edulis), as international conservation charity ZSL (Zoological Society ...
Shift toward productive conditions on US west coast. Burgeoning populations of anchovy and a healthy crop of California sea lion pups reflected improved productivity off parts of the West Coast in 2019, according to a ...
Expansion of Pacific MPAs did not harm tuna fleet. Expansion of the Pacific Remote Islands and Papahānaumokuākea marine national monuments (marine protected areas) did not cause economic harm to the Hawaiʻi-based longline tuna fishing fleet, according ...
ICES workshop aims to map deepwater sharks in the north-east Atlantic. Experts in shark biology, data and mapping recently met at the Marine Institute’s headquarters in Oranmore, Co Galway to map the distribution of deepwater ...
Cullen fellow developing methods to map Ireland’s seaweed species. Tom Rossiter is a PhD student at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway) and a Marine Institute funded Cullen Fellow. His research, entitled ‘An ...
Family matters for world’s second biggest fish. The world’s second biggest fish – the basking shark – prefers to travel with family to familiar feeding sites, according to a new study led by the University ...
Whale entanglements putting west coast USA fisheries at risk. An ecological pileup of unprecedented changes in the ocean off the West Coast of the USA beginning about 2014 led to record entanglements of humpback and ...
Marine Protected Areas must be mobile. World leaders are currently updating the laws for international waters that apply to most of the world’s ocean environment. This provides a unique opportunity, marine scientists argued last week, ...
Microplastics affect sand crabs’ mortality and reproduction. Sand crabs, a key species in beach ecosystems, were found to have increased adult mortality and decreased reproductive success when exposed to plastic microfibers, according to a new ...
Diversity of Antarctic marine life stuns researchers. The rich diversity of marine life near Scott Base in Antarctica has stunned scientists diving under the ice to set up environmental monitoring sites. Five of NIWA’s (the ...
New study on fisheries impact on seabirds. According to an article on the Barcelona University website, seabirds are the most threatened birds in the planet due to the fishing activity, predation and loss of breeding ...
Little relief in the deep for heat-stressed corals. A team of NOAA scientists recently examined more than a thousand hot water events on coral reefs across the Pacific Ocean. Combining on-site monitoring with satellite records, ...
Community action can boost coral reef fish numbers. New research has found that positive community action can boost fish numbers in coral reefs and safeguard fish numbers there in the future. The research collaboration, which ...
Crabs killed by plastic debris. In the first study of its kind, an Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)-led research team estimates that more than 560,000 hermit crabs have been killed on the Cocos ...
Government failing on marine commitments for Mediterranean. A new WWF report shows that Mediterranean countries are failing on their global commitment to protect at least 10% of marine and coastal areas, and to stop ongoing ...
WWF urges urgent environmental action. Over £12 billion could be wiped off the UK’s economy every year by 2050 as a result of coastal damages alone, if we fail to act on the escalating environmental ...
Climate change is reshaping marine ecology. Climate change is reshaping communities of fish and other sea life, according to a pioneering study on how ocean warming is affecting the mix of species. The study, published in ...
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