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Posts Tagged ‘census’
Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Aug 6th, 2010,
The Census of Marine Life is a 10-year worldwide project conducted by a network of researchers and coordinated in part by the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. The aim of the census – the first global study of its kind – is to ‘explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans’. From an article in the Telegraph: They hope that by creating the first catalogue of the world’s oceans we can begin to understand the great ecological questions about habitat loss, pollution, overfishing and all the other man-made plagues that are being visited on the sea. The truth…
Tags: biodiversity, census, ecological, fish, life, marine, Mediterranean, ocean, overfishing, Pollution, sea
Nature, Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, Jul 13th, 2010,
86 Cabbage Butterflies, 5 Spring Azures, 4 Eastern Tiger Swallowtails, 1 Monarch, and at least 8 other unidentifiable species. Those are our totals for our part in the annual North American Butterfly Association Butterfly Counts program (thus far). Every year, butterfly counts are taken throughout Canada, the US, and Mexico (and most likely other countries around the world—but this isn’t about them). These counts allow regular people to get involved with the scientific process and learn more about the environment around them. To take part in the butterfly count, all you really need is a pair of binoculars and a…
Tags: butterflies, butterflies and moths, Butterfly Count, census, count, field guide, insects, North American Butterfly Association, population, program, study
Climate Change, Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Feb 21st, 2010,
The depletion of fish stocks in the world’s oceans and the use of increasingly sophisticated industrial fishing techniques are resulting in heavy damage to precious marine ecosystems. Trawling, once relegated to shallow waters with level sea floors, is now commonly used to fish deeper, including among coral reefs. Deep-sea trawlers use giant, heavy-duty nets that are dragged over the seafloor at depths of more than a kilometre. The nets are fitted with rubber rollers called “rock hoppers”, which destroy the corals that provide habitats for fish and other marine organisms. –Guardian According to a piece in the Guardian, scientific surveys…
Tags: acidification, census, coral, deep sea, ecosystem, fish, Guardian, life, marine, ocean, reefs, sea, threat, Times, trawling
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Nov 27th, 2009,
Life in the deep sea is just as weird and wonderful as any alien creatures from outer space that our imaginations might conjure up, a massive study of marine biology shows. Comprising of some 210 expeditions spanning ten years by over 300 scientists from 34 nations, the international Census of Marine Life is in fact the culmination of ‘hundreds of years of research’. Very little is known about ocean life when compared to the eco-systems on land, especially the deep, where ‘unidentified species are often the norm, not the exception’, according to a November 23rd article in the London Times….
Tags: census, Census of Marine Life, Climate change, deep sea, ocean, species, Wildlife & Flora
