News tagged with seagrass
New research decodes the secret language of the sea
Jul 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Even parasite-eating fish recognise the benefits of good advertising, UQ research has found.
Restrictions on boaters proposed to protect Everglades seagrass
May 18, 2009 |
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Concerned that powerboats are tearing up seagrass in Florida Bay, Everglades National Park has proposed a range of possible restrictions on boaters to protect a vast, shallow estuary that supports sea turtles, fish and clouds ...
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Scientists are first to 'unlock' the mystery of creating cultured pearls from the queen conch
Nov 04, 2009 |
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For more than 25 years, all attempts at culturing pearls from the queen conch (Strombus gigas) have been unsuccessful—until now. For the first time, novel and proprietary seeding techniques to produce beaded ...
New research to unravel how nutrients drive toxic 'brown tides' on East Coast
Sep 17, 2009 |
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NOAA has awarded Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution $120,000 as part of an anticipated three-year, nearly $500,000 project, to determine how nitrogen and phosphorus promote brown tides on the East Coast. ...
NASA Heads Out to Sea
Aug 24, 2009 |
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NASA scientists Maury Estes and Mohammad Al-Hamdan have been seafaring in the Gulf of Mexico, and one of them grew a bit green around the gills. It's not surprising that a space agency scientist might have ...
Loss of coastal seagrass habitat accelerating globally
Jun 29, 2009 |
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An international team of scientists warns that accelerating losses of seagrasses across the globe threaten the immediate health and long-term sustainability of coastal ecosystems. The team has compiled and analyzed the first ...
Marine invasive species advance 50km per decade
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Nov 10, 2008 |
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A rapid, climate change-induced northern migration of invasive marine is one of many research results announced Tues. Nov. 11 during opening day presentations at the First World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Ciudad de ...
Introducing Tassie's underwater robot – 'Searise'
Nov 06, 2008 |
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A miniature CSIRO submarine being used to study the health of Tasmania’s waterways has officially been named ‘Searise’.
Nitrogen retained through loss
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 22, 2008 |
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The nitrogen cycle plays a major role in seagrass fields. Dutch researcher Arie Vonk studied the nitrogen dynamics of seagrasses in Indonesia. He discovered that the interaction between seagrasses, animals and microorganisms ...
Seagrass ecosystems at a 'global crisis'
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Dec 01, 2006 |
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An international team of scientists is calling for a targeted global conservation effort to preserve seagrasses and their ecological services for the world’s coastal ecosystems, according to an article published in the December ...
All the Eggs in One Basket: Conserving Too Few Sea Turtle Sites
Aug 01, 2006 |
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Current conservation assessments of endangered Caribbean sea turtles are too optimistic, according to Loren McClenachan and colleagues from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Sea sore: Coasts, estuaries degraded by humans
Jun 23, 2006 |
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Severe resource depletion and ecosystem destruction of coasts and estuaries began during Roman and Medieval times but have rapidly accelerated over the last 150-300 years, according to a new study in Science.
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