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  • ...ed for the use of certain areas. This approach has become the standard for terrestrial land-use planning and decision-making. ...tive. In many respects, planning in the marine environment today resembles terrestrial planning in the 1960s. Where land use planning is the spatial planning comp
    36 KB (5,342 words) - 18:20, 16 February 2024
  • ...iability among living organisms from all sources, including, 'inter alia', terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems, and the ecological complexes of whic
    1 KB (150 words) - 11:56, 6 March 2022
  • ...ntified as being nationally rare or scarce in samples of both aquatic and "terrestrial" species.
    8 KB (1,285 words) - 14:50, 7 October 2021
  • ...ion. They often occur in a complex of other habitats spanning the range of terrestrial coastal habitats and ecosystems in transitional waters.
    9 KB (1,344 words) - 16:12, 30 August 2021
  • They are salt-tolerant forested [[wetlands]] at the interface between the terrestrial landscape and the marine environment. The dominant vegetation are several s ...really a mangrove species, but a transitional species between mangrove and terrestrial vegetation.
    42 KB (6,310 words) - 17:09, 21 April 2024
  • ...Seagrasses are not true grasses but rooted vascular (flowering) plants of terrestrial origin that have successfully returned to the sea. This return needs severa ...ent traps. The roots are thicker and more fleshy than the fibrous roots of terrestrial grasses. They thus provide protection against coastal [[erosion]]. Nutrient
    37 KB (5,414 words) - 20:23, 24 December 2023
  • ...pped in a ‘coastal squeeze’ between the impacts of urbanization on the terrestrial side and manifestations of climate change at sea. While unconstrained, thes
    7 KB (1,034 words) - 13:09, 6 March 2022
  • ...redators. They are very important to the overall health of both marine and terrestrial environments.
    4 KB (622 words) - 14:39, 24 September 2022
  • ...this regard, ICZM has shown that it could become the instrument to link ''terrestrial'' and ''marine'' legislation, especially at the Regional Sea Level<ref>Rupp
    8 KB (1,125 words) - 21:17, 28 August 2020
  • ...l zone is not set by some arbitrary buffer along the interface between the terrestrial and marine parts, but a '''functional''' unit defined by the interactions b ...hich need take into account the inter-relationships between the marine and terrestrial parts of the coastal zone. Considering ecosystem services, EIA and SEA can
    20 KB (2,938 words) - 17:27, 15 February 2024
  • ...nc.] ||Designs and manufactures scientific instrumentation for aquatic and terrestrial environmental monitoring. In <u>Case 1</u> waters, which are usually deep and free of terrestrial influence, variations in optical properties are linked to chlorophyll conce
    16 KB (2,211 words) - 21:29, 24 February 2024
  • Definition|title= Wetlands |definition= Transitional areas between terrestrial and aquatic systems in which the water table is usually at or near the surf ...mmunities living in and on the soil. Wetlands may support both aquatic and terrestrial species. The prolonged presence of water creates conditions that favour the
    1 KB (193 words) - 22:50, 3 March 2022
  • ...affecting mangroves of high islands and continental coasts may be input of terrestrial sediment such that the effects of sea level rise are lessened. Because of t
    15 KB (2,216 words) - 16:51, 3 September 2020
  • ...rovide good quality food and the production is more efficient than that of terrestrial animals; roughly half the level of feed input per unit output is necessary ...2010 indicate that about 98% of the world's food supply is provided by the terrestrial domain (agriculture). Only 1.4% comes from the marine domain: fishery (~ 1%
    46 KB (6,591 words) - 18:12, 4 May 2024
  • ...waves and wind moves sedimentary material to create intertidal or coastal terrestrial habitats. The erosion of the former (particularly cliffs made of soft glaci ...well, D.S. & Boar, R., 1986. ''Coast dune management guide''. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, HMSO, London.</ref>. Copyright: J Pat Doody]]
    4 KB (687 words) - 15:53, 6 September 2020
  • ...s that can tolerate salty conditions. They have all the characteristics of terrestrial plants with a vascular system and roots.
    206 bytes (28 words) - 15:36, 15 July 2008
  • Saltmarshes are defined as natural or semi-natural terrestrial halophytic ecosystems that occur in the [[intertidal]] zone between the lan ...Flooded only by the highest tides and during storms, they are more like a terrestrial than a true marine environment. The plant community is more diverse than on
    28 KB (4,120 words) - 21:17, 24 April 2024
  • ...ences, since scientific observational methods were not limited any more to terrestrial only, but to satellite ones as well. Considering the main advantages of sat ...ng the buoy receivers, the receivers aboard the boat and several permanent terrestrial GPS reference stations, all operated at a sampling rate of 1 Hz. The coordi
    24 KB (3,830 words) - 18:53, 19 February 2024
  • ...aries, and deposit far from the place of release, where they accumulate in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
    15 KB (2,151 words) - 13:08, 7 August 2020
  • ...e waters and the atmosphere. They are defined as zones of transition where terrestrial runoff discharges into the sea, and are closely connected to the [[ecosyste *Restoration of marine coastal ecosystems is more expensive than for terrestrial ecosystems; this holds in particular for coral reefs, seagrass and oyster r
    23 KB (3,205 words) - 17:00, 2 March 2023

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