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... fish bone assem-blages In addition, several smaller case studies have been undertaken in areas such as the Philippine Seas, the Wadden Sea, and the seas of Indonesia and northern Australia Regional ... tech-nological investments and the opening up of distant and deep waters in the Southern hemisphere The oceans will simply not yield more In fact catches are of increasingly smaller fi sh of less economic ... Barents Seas; southwest African Shelf; and the biodiversity of nearshore waters Three case studies focus on the following species: whales, cod, and mollusks and one on Northern European fish bone

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... becoming established monitoring sites Some sites in Alaska were established with the assistance of local native communities, and some sites in both Alaska and California are being maintained ... total of six sites have been sampled, with both Argentinean sites being sampled twice (Table 2.1 ) All sites in the SAS region were sampled with the assistance of local university students Although ... publica-tions, such as fi eld guides on echinoderms (Yasin et al 2008 ), hermit crabs (Rahayu & Wahyudi 2008 ), and seagrasses (Susetiono 2007 ) NaGISA sites sampled within the European Seas region

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... a large step forward in sampling, understanding, and monitoring the seafloor Analysis of demersal fish assemblages on Stellwagen Bank as sampled by the trawl surveys has shown surprisingly good ... Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans Washington, DC: Island Press Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Biodiversity Synthesis Washington, DC: World Resources ... 2009) These provide insights into previous states of the system, the magnitude and nature of previous impacts, and factors determining the current state of the system These can be a basis for discussing

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... CReefs: assessments of the organisms (especially crustaceans) living in heads of dead Pocillopora coral, and assessments of all marine organisms settling into autonomous reef monitoring structures ... remains an intermediate step towards the goal of obtaining a truly effi cient biodi-versity assessment methodology This is because barcoding still involves removing and sampling or sub - sampling ... shes, corals, and the ecosystem based their biodiversity analysis on just four groups: fi shes, corals, snails, and lobsters The lack of serious attention to overall biodiversity loss stems not

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... ecosystems, enhancing international collaborations and increasing the standardization of methodologies that now translates in sampling schemes and cruises specifically addressing its overarching question ... deep-sea ecosystems These include the subseabed storage of CO2, water column and sediment surface CO2 disposal, the use of methane hydrates, submarine mine tailing disposal, bioprospecting and ... 2009) The disposal of mine waste from land into the deep sea, in some cases down canyon systems, has received surprisingly little study (Ellis 2001), although in shallow water the activity has significant

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... were crinoids, sponges, the bivalve Acesta excavata , and squat lobsters Corresponding numbers for zooplankton taxa and top predators such as mammals and seabirds (from sightings along the ship ... marker suitable for routine discrimination has been developed (Stefanni et al 2009 ) The huge collections of specimens and tissue samples including samples of very rare species not available else-where, ... ) The samples of rare deep - sea fi shes are also very valuable in studies of the evolution of various groups Modern standards for these phylogenetic reconstructions and studies of the interrela-tionships

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... continental margins However, sampling - related issues complicate such comparisons, an issue that has been addressed within the CenSeam Data Analysis Working Group (DAWG) Taking sampling factors into account, ... shallow stepping stones across the abyssal plains The isolated nature of many sea-mounts has fueled the hypothesis that seasea-mounts can sup port high levels of endemicity, and numerous studies have ... well as removing sediments (Genin 2004 ) Sus-pension feeders (for example corals, sponges, hydroids, crinoids, anemones, sea pens, feather stars, and brittlestars) have been found to dominate some

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... species in the abyss? Is there gene flow between distant abyssal communities of the same species? ● 141 ● Are there latitudinal gradients in species richness? Is the diversity of a given basin ... was devoted to the study of the largest and remotest ecosystem on Earth, the major deep basins stretching between continental margins and the mid-ocean ridge system Abyssal plains and basins ... abyssal samples, again suggesting that the abyssal polychaete fauna contains higher species diversity than previously appreciated, and may include numerous species evolved in the abyss All of these

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... Chemosynthetic Ecosystems Deep-sea ecosystems support one of the highest biodiversities of the Planet as well as important natural and mineral resources In the last decades, the depletion of resources ... resources in the upper layers of the oceans together with technological development has fueled the increasing interest of industry to explore and exploit deep-sea resources Industries such as mining, ... energetic input to chemosynthetic ecosystems in the deep sea can also derive from photosynthesis as in the case of large organic falls to the seafloor, including kelp, wood, large fish, or whales After

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... remains the domain of ice camps and ice breakers with access mainly in the summer months In contrast, the shallow seasonally ice - covered Arctic shelves Trang 2Bering Strait Chukchi Sea East Siberian ... varies from very narrow shelves in the Beaufort Sea to the wide Russian shelves The central Arctic is a deep - sea system divided into abyssal basins by the Gakkel and Lomonosov ridges The only ... marine species before the Census Before the Census, the only web - based resource containing Arctic marine information was the non - searchable database by the US National Marine Fisheries Service

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... neritic assemblage (Lindsay et al , unpublished observations) Apex predators were also included in the CAML studies An extensive census in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean, mainly west and ... previously been found on the Spiess Seamount, with large specimens of sea urchins ( Dermechinus horridus ) as well as lithodid crabs ( Paralomis elongata ) being the most conspicuous species and, ... available in SCAR - MarBIN as of May 2009 ( www. scarmarbin.be/scarproviders.php; De Broyer & Danis) Sampling effort is eliminated statistically, but intensive sampling by the Continuous Plankton

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... Coastal waters (MHB.PML) ASV Coastal waters (CNE.EEL.LCR. LSM.MHB) Coastal sediments (CMM.FIS.LCR MHB.SSD) MHB sediments CFU11 FIS sediments Sediments (VAG) Sediments (VAG) MPI5 Sediments (SMS.NZS) ... describes the origin of samples, targeted domains, project descrip-tions, and relevance to other Census ocean - realm projects Here we present a broad - brush synthesis of our data emphasizing ... sites throughout the world ’ s oceans Since 2004, ICoMM has provided support for training shops and meetings including five primary working groups (Benthic, Open Ocean and Coastal Systems, Technology,

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... remain large gaps in the sampling coverage done by CMarZ, especially in the deep sea and under-sampled ocean regions Despite the increase of deep-sea studies, these investigations still represent ... vehicles (ROVs), submersibles, and divers Sampling strategies have trade-offs for each type of sampling gear: some may obtain numerous specimens, but under-sample fragile taxa, whereas others may ... copepod species in Southeast Asia (another 2% to the global total), and new species discoveries of Mysidacea in Southeast Asia have added 15% to the global total for that group Understanding the significance

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... passive tags The second question was, “ Are salmon as specifi c in their use of the ocean as they are in their use of rivers? ” This was nicknamed the “ two zip code ” theory, the idea being ... the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) system 2) A focus on studying the behaviors of marine species, including long - distance migrations 3) A focus on estimating survival by deploying ... fertilizers, and pollutants h as POST b een? The signature of the early POST results is just how surpris-ing they have been The effort to study salmon survival in the ocean, while still in its early

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... both the Northern and Southern hemi-spheres during the most productive periods; in other words, they exist in an “ endless summer ” 15.2.3.3 Leatherback t urtles Two distinct populations of ... - species hot spots These include areas we have desig-nated as the California Marine Sanctuaries Hot Spot (CMHS), the Southern California Bight Hot Spot (SCBHS), and the Baja California Hot Spot ... species with interesting ecological link-ages One key concept that emerged early in the program was the focus on tagging of guilds of closely related species The TOPP species guilds include sharks

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... variation in species richness showed a remarkable synchrony with the El Ni ñ o Southern Oscillation (ENSO) index, with increasing tem-peratures leading to basin - wide increases in species richness (Worm ... have resulted in changes in species diversity As was discussed previously, there have been remarkable changes in tuna and billfi sh species richness in the open ocean over the past 50 years (Fig ... indicating declining species richness, a pattern most clearly seen in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans Declin-ing species richness coincided with 5 - to 10 - fold increases in total fi sheries catch of

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... opportunities that conflict in the DRC affords armed parties,92 resurgence of full-scale war in the Kivus and the DRC is possible Though the situation in the Kivus is perilous, the GoC is significantly ... national institutions, provincial and local The State guarantees the implementation of gender in these institutions The law establishes the procedures for implementing these rights.” Translated, ... deportations.153 The GoC must increase funding to the Justice and RCMP departments in the Canadian war crimes unit, to facilitate more investigations and trials of suspected war criminals residing in...

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... it s doable with the right tools and mind-set In school, students are usually evaluated as individuals and graded on a curve In short, when they win someone else loses Not only is this stressful, ... business school I laving missed all the deadlines, he chose to m ake his application stand out am ong the others in a n unconventional way Instead of touting his impressive accom plishm ents, ... observations on how diapers arc sold, assessing the m essaging on the diaper packages, and conducting interviews w ith parents, M ichacl realized that K im berly-C lark was miss­ in g the point:...

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... 1903 The O The O The O wilder d mind is tost and sea, in thy eternal tide lost, ; reeling brain essays in vain, stars, to grasp the vastness wide tremendous scheme That glimmers in each glancing ... And these persons are further disquieted because the very same facts are used by sceptics of various kinds in their attacks upon also theatres of Christianity life Such writers point out the ... published his Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds The book consisted of five chapters, the first explaining the Copernican Theory the second maintaining that the third gives the moon is a...

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