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• Resilience and resistance
  ...Climate change and ecosystems. Procs. Sackler Forum on Climate Change and Ecosystems, Washington, DC, November 8-9, 2018, organized by the National Academy of S ...15(4): 20</ref>; Scheffer 2009<ref>Scheffer, M. 2009. Critical transitions in nature and society. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA<
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• Species extinction
  ...tition, disease, or predation. However, there have been dramatic increases in extinction rates since humans have become Earth's dominant large animal and ...release of carbon dioxide and methane. This mass extinction first started in the deep ocean area, and then moved up to the upper layers of ocean, killin
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• Sampling
  ...to be carefully analysed and selected so as to take into account this high variability of most marine systems. The steps in designing a field sampling program include:
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• Marine Plankton
  ...living organisms that spend at least a part of their life cycle suspended in water. The term [[plankton]] is actually a Greek word, meaning ''that which ...'''Holoplankton''' refers to those organisms that spend their entire life in the plankton, as opposed to the '''meroplankton''', which are only plankton
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• Mediterranean seagrass ecosystem
  ...s species. ''P. oceanica'' beds cover between 25,000 and 50,000 km2 of the coastal areas of the Mediterranean, corresponding to 25% of the sea bottom at depth ...the coastline. This process also reduces the amount of sediment suspended in the water, helping to maintain the clear water conditions P. oceanica requi
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• A review of biodiversity-ecosystem function research
  ...s in biodiversity, not only in marine, but also terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems <ref name = "Sala"> Sala, O.E., Chapin, F.S., Armesto, J.J., Berlow, E., Bl ...old, J.A. (2008). Marine benthic biodiversity-ecosystem function relations in complex systems. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Aberdeen.]]
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• Introduction to MarBEF research
  ...s extremely high and that tens of thousands of ‘[[species]]’ may occur in a single litre of sea water. The estimates of the number of marine species Many species of coastal plankton are active for a short time and remain in the sediments as resting stages, sometimes for very long periods.</div>]]
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• Future marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research issues
  ..._biodiversity_and_ecosystem_functioning_research_issues#Coastal management|Coastal management]] ...[[Effects_of_global_climate_change_on_European_marine_biodiversity|changes in the global climate]], the medium term and long-term effects on the [[Marine
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• The ICZM Process - a Roadmap towards Coastal Sustainability - Introduction
  ...ss will contribute to a wider discussion on the sustainable development of coastal zones. ...arcelona Convention on Integrated Coastal Zone Management, now drives ICZM in the Mediterranean.
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• Integrated Coastal Zone Management: analysis of the environmental condition of the coastal area of the Northern Range of Trinidad
  ==Analysis of the environmental condition of the coastal area of the Northern Range of Trinidad== ...al Management]] section and the subcategory [[Evaluation and assessment in Coastal Management]].
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• Setting the Direction in ICZM
  ...describes in simple terms the condition of the coastal area in the future, in a time-span of 10 to 30 years and even beyond, if the strategy, plan or pro ...ge, including rising sea levels, warming and drought; resilient to climate variability such as extreme storms, floods, waves, etc; resilient to earthquakes and er
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• Deep ocean observatories
  ...nic nutrient inventories with adverse effects on the functioning of marine ecosystems and global circulation patterns. We need to monitor closely the changing pr This Fact Sheet introduces the importance of deep ocean observatories in the current international effort to monitor the oceans. The EUR-OCEANS netw
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• Biogenic reefs of Europe and temporal variability
  ...distribution of the threatened and/or declining coastal and shelf habitats in Europe.]] ...center|250px|Figure 3: Current OBIS distribution data for ''S. alveolata'' in Europe (data from OBIS, July 2012) showing distributions and unconfirmed re
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• Monitoring changes in North Atlantic plankton communities
  ...nerating and analyzing testable hypotheses. Over the last decade, interest in long-term plankton sampling has increased. However, long timeseries are st * distinguish between the effects of human activities and natural variability
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• Dynamics, threats and management of dunes
  ==Processes and mechanisms driving natural dynamics & ecosystem development== ...of different environments in which dune formation may occur, as described in the article [[Dune development]].
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• Shore protection vegetation
  ...and the more stable backshore. These are species that can grow and thrive in shifting sands, that have a strong sand-binding capacity due to an extensiv .... The selection is probably biased towards species that are well described in the literature and may ignore some important less common and less-studied s
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• Dynamics, threats and management of salt marshes
  ==Processes and mechanisms driving natural dynamics and ecosystem development== ...oastal vegetation, like [[salt marsh]] vegetation, are ecosystem engineers in that they can strongly attenuate hydrodynamic energy from tidal current and
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• Dynamics, threats and management of biogenic reefs
  ==PROCESSES AND MECHANISMS DRIVING NATURAL DYNAMICS & ECOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT == ...s and ecosystem development of biogenic reefs are discussed for each group in turn.
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• Integrating Climate Change into the ICZM planning process - Analysis and Future
  # Identify the main elements of climate variability and change in the short- (10-20 years), mid- (30-40 years), and long-term (60+ years) per # The impacts of this variability on key sectors and the risks associated with them.
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• Ecological restoration of estuaries in North Western Europe
  ...ly based on Ducrotoy, J-P. 2010. Ecological restoration of tidal estuaries in North Western ...diversity of wet land, including intertidal flats and salt marshes. In all ecosystems, there has been a parallel decrease of fresh water tidal habitats for fish,
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