Sentence examples for sea ecosystems from inspiring English sources

While much is known about shallow, tropical coral habitats, the richness, diversity and ecological importance of these deep sea ecosystems, found at depths of 30-150 metres, has only recently been understood.

I find it curiously infuriating that some people who ardently support the dirty and dangerous practice of offshore drilling suddenly become sea-life admirers only once it is time to remove the rigs from the water, arguing that the rigs support sea ecosystems.

Marine mineral mining can bring about considerable but yet unknown environmental concerns, through the disturbance of deep sea ecosystems.

Operations on the sea floor may destroy unique habitats and disturb deep sea ecosystems which could entail changes in fish stock and primary production.

Overall, these results highlight the seasonally varying influence of both autotrophic and heterotrophic components of shelf sea ecosystems on the relative uptake of C and P.

One of the rarest and environmentally sensitive land and sea ecosystems in the western Pacific is under threat of mega-development.

In Egypt, soil compaction and rising sea levels have already led to saltwater intrusion in the Nile Delta; overfishing and overdevelopment are threatening the Red Sea ecosystem, and unregulated and unsustainable agricultural practices in poorer districts, plus more extreme temperatures, are contributing to erosion and desertification.

It also plans to examine all facets of the Red Sea ecosystem, a relatively unexplored body of water.

It is shown that the system can provide high quality measurements that improve our understanding of open sea ecosystem functioning and contribute towards reliable environmental predictions.

Here we combine plankton taxonomic data with the analysis of biovolume spectra and stable isotopes to provide insights into the trophic interactions that occur in a shelf sea ecosystem (Celtic Sea) across the spring-summer-autumn transition.

The Adriatic Sea ecosystem is threatened by excessive input of nutrients through drainage from agricultural land and wastewater flowing from cities; this includes both along its coast and from rivers draining into the sea especially from the Po River.