"Terns are incredibly sensitive to changes in the marine environment," said Bevan.
For them, the information is a valuable baseline database they will use to assess changes in the marine environment.
Phenological changes in the marine environment will affect human economics, food systems, and recreation.
Ocean acidification is expected to cause significant changes in the marine environment over the coming century.
They forecast major changes in the marine ecosystem, but say there is huge uncertainty over what those changes will be.
Studies of the body condition of five marine vertebrate predators in the Beaufort Sea, conducted independently during the past 2 4 decades, suggest each has been affected by biophysical changes in the marine ecosystem.
We hypothesize that at present underlying physical changes in the marine ecosystem may be insufficient to affect supply of preferred gannet main prey (pilchard Sardinops spp ., which tolerate a wide thermal range.
This study highlights the importance of power analysis in designing citizen science programmes and demonstrates their effectiveness in carrying out long term shore-based monitoring of coastal cetacean species, providing a cost-effective early warning system for changes in the marine environment.
They may have migrated to Arctic and sub-Arctic waters in response to changes in the marine food chain during the Pliocene.
Albatrosses are one of the most vulnerable groups of seabirds consequent on recent natural and anthropogenically-induced changes in the marine environment [1].
