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• Threats to the coastal zone
  .... It discusses generic modifications to coastal [[ecosystem]]s in relation to specific human activities and introduces the various threats resulting from ...ive impact for the coastal zones was estimated to be due for more than 80% to increasing sea surface temperature and sea level.
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• Economic valuation of goods and services of the UK coastal and marine ecosystem
  ...etary terms can prevent overexploitation and environmental degradation due to overlooking less obvious ecosystem services, such as nutrient cycling. ...way. A serious caveat is that existing knowledge is generally insufficient to fully understand [[ecosystem functioning]] and the way in which different e
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• Common biomarkers for the assessment of marine pollution
  ...t a number of suitable [[biomarker]]s that can be used on bivalves or fish to assess the level of marine [[pollution]]. ...en though the sampling is expensive, the importance of their use is linked to their position in the trophic chain and their high commercial value. Both b
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• Convention on Biological Diversity
  [[biodiversity|Biological diversity - or biodiversity]] - is the term given to the variety of life on Earth and the natural patterns it forms. [[Biodivers ...netic diversity]] (genetic variation that occurs among members of the same species), [[ecosystem diversity]] (variety of biological communities) and [[Functio
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• The Integrated approach to Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
  ...e in the coastal strip, and a significant proportion of the catch of these species comes from this area. ...derable share of the country's economic activities, being highly valued by society for the non-marketable goods and services they provide.
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• UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
  |definition= This Convention lays down the general obligations of states to protect and preserve the marine environment. The [http://www.un.org/Depts/l ...lation for the sea is the set of laws and international agreements related to the use of the ''sea'', defined as freely and naturally connected expanses
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• Impacts from maritime transport
  ...tal quality or of other non-use or passive-use values, which are difficult to estimate with traditional techniques and concepts of evaluation, as no mark On its way to the bottom of the sea it spilled more than 60,000 MT of oil, polluting more
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• Marine Spatial Planning - the need for a common language
  ...rd ecosystem-based management in the marine environment. This article aims to clarify why we need marine [[spatial planning]], how it can be defined appr ...nd more recently wind energy and offshore marine aquaculture, have started to claim their own spaces in the marine environment. A study done for the Belg
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• Potential Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Mangroves
  ...name="M">McLeod, E. and R.V. Salm. 2006. Managing Mangroves for Resilience to Climate Change. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. 64p.</ref>) (Fig.1). ...5% of the global area has been lost in the past two decades, due primarily to human activities such as conversion for aquaculture. Mangroves are declinin
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• Sand dune - Country Report, Great Britain
  ...rvation Conference, held in the Netherlands in November 1991. It attempted to provide a description of the [[sand dunes|sand dune vegetation]], sites and ...[[European Sand Dune Distribution|on European sand dunes]] provides links to the other European country reports. These represent chapters from updated i
  30 KB (4,524 words) - 12:53, 23 June 2022
• Principles of conservation, rehabilitation and restoration of estuarine and coastal habitats
  ...troyed (SER, 2004<ref>SER. 2004. The SER primer on ecological restoration. Society for Ecological Restoration, Science & Policy Working Group, Tucson, Arizona ...uctures and functions in the context of ecoregional attainability in order to achieve specified objectives (Cooke, 2005<ref>Cooke, G.D. 2005. Ecosystem R
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• Resilience and resistance
  |definition= The capacity of a (ecological) system to weather a disturbance without loss of integrity and function (Lake 2013<ref ...ber 8-9, 2018, organized by the National Academy of Sciences and The Royal Society</ref>);
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• Cultural and economic understanding of biodiversity
  ...tion whereby “importance” is what is really being considered. Efforts to include economic and cultural understandings of biodiversity into managemen ...ls may also value leaving a pristine environment and species found therein to their children.
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• Biodiversity and Ecosystem function
  ...nd Lawton, 1995<ref>Jones, C. G., and Lawton, J. H. editors. 1995. Linking species and ecosystems. Chapman and Hall, New York, New York, USA.</ref>; Johnson e == Importance of ecosystem function ==
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• US Sea Grant College Program
  ...model for how to link national topics of concern into sustained responses to those topics within the localized geographic areas where each university op ...rogram was initiated in 1979 to bring graduate students to Washington D.C. to build their leadership skills in policy development and research.
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• Marine Plankton
  ...he aquatic food chains<ref>Barnes, R. and Hughes, R. 1999. An introduction to marine ecology. Wiley & Sons, Oxford</ref>. ...ructure: Heterotrophic compartments of the plankton and their relationship to plankton size fractions. ''Limnology and Oceanography'' 23: 1256-1263</ref>
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• A review of biodiversity-ecosystem function research
  Human needs and actions have, and will continue to, extensively alter ecosystems and [[biodiversity]] on a global scale <ref n ...though the pattern of response may vary depending on the [[ecosystem]] and species investigated.
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• Public participation in coastal management in Honduras
  ...h, composition of reef types, and diverse assemblage of corals and related species. The outstanding ecological and cultural significance of the MBRS has resul ...decades of mostly military rule, a freely elected civilian government came to power in 1982.
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• About MarBEF
  ...nities and initiatives that will be of huge importance both to science and society<ref name="ma">[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306030378_Marine_Bi ===Theme 1: Patterns of species diversity===
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• MarBEF data management
  ...ntific community and yet they sit gathering dust on a shelf – a crime to society! ...ognised this problem and consequently built a framework and infrastructure to increase the availability and sharing of data which was previously at risk
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