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  • ...related to the living environment is given in the article '''[[Definitions of marine ecological terms]]'''. ...tal Wiki articles. Terms related to the coastal profile are illustrated in the figure below.
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  • ...arine pollution and degradations in marine environments: Implications from the literature. Marine Pollution Bulletin 52: 844-864.</ref>. ...le data and the extreme complexity of biogeochemical cycles, especially at the sea-land and sea-atmosphere interfaces.
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  • ...undations) with the common goal of encouraging the sustainable development of oceans, coasts, and islands. ...velopment (OECD); and Magdalena Muir, Research Associate, Arctic Institute of North America.
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  • ...ocal communities may depend on the maintenance of the coastal and marine [[ecosystem]]s that tourism activity and other activities such as fisheries depend upon ...in coastal waters and adjacent to beaches also reduces the attractiveness of tourism for those beaches.
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  • |definition= Harmful algal blooms or HABs are [[algal bloom]]s composed of phytoplankton that naturally produce biotoxins. Harmful algal blooms (HABs) ...any phytoplankton bloom event that causes 'negative' impacts on the marine ecosystem, for example oxygen depletion or sunlight shading. }}
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  • ...maritime economy, responsive to sustainable principles and in harmony with the marine environment. ...dered in the new maritime policy and strategy will place a heavy burden on the existing educational and training institutions and resources.
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  • ...nefits it can offer. It also briefly discusses some international examples of marine spatial planning today. ...d of Space. Towards a Spatial Structure Plan for Sustainable Management of the North Sea. Belgian Science Policy, 2005, pp. 14-15</ref>. Similar experienc
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  • ...issolves in seawater producing carbonic acid, which subsequently lowers pH of surrounding seawater; widely thought to be happening on a global scale.}} ...result that calcifying organisms promote acidification, while dissolution of calcium carbonate counteracts acidification.
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  • ...<ref name=Dieckmann>Dieckmann, G. S., Hellmer, H. H., 2003, The importance of sea ice: an overwiew. In: Thomas, D. N., Dieckmann, G. S., Sea ice. An intr ...the shore or grounded to a shallow sea bottom. Pack ice refers to any area of floating sea ice that is not land-fast.
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  • ...eview of literature on valuation of coastal ecosystem services. Thresholds of Environmental Sustainability. EU FP6 Integrated Project. Project contract n ...ilding Adaptive Capacity in a World of Transformations. AMBIO A Journal of the Human Environment 31(5): 437-40</ref>)
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  • {{ Definition| title = Regime shift ...ock, W.A. 2009. Turning back from the brink: Detecting an impending regime shift in time to avert it. PNAS 106: 826–831</ref>).}}
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  • |definition= Effects of removal or addition of keystone species that propagate through food webs across multiple trophic l ...A trophic cascade can also result from a strong increase in the abundance of a keystone species.
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  • ...-CEME.jpg|left|thumb|250px|caption|Figure 1: Example of a salt-marsh: Land of Saeftinghe - Belgium <ref>http://www.marbef.org</ref>]] ...erbs <ref name= "Salt marsh">[[Salt_marshes]]</ref>. The sediment consists of [[mud]] and sand. Salt marshes are normally associated with [[Tidal flats
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  • ...ated to '''Pollution prevention, detection and mitigation''' are listed in the [[:Category:Coastal and marine pollution]]. ...t ways in most coastal countries, through regulations and the organisation of alert and protection systems.
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  • ...It also marked the completion of an ecological regime shift, from an ocean ecosystem dominated by cod and other predatory groundfish, to one in which such fish ...., Andersen, R., & Green, J.M. (1992). The managed commercial annihilation of northern cod. Newfoundland Studies, 8(1), 34-68.</ref>.
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  • Some limit mariculture to culture of marine plants and animals in the ocean itself (EEA, 2008<ref>European Environmental agency; https://www.eea. ...(2004): Solutions for sustainable mariculture-avoiding the adverse effects of mariculture on biological diversity, CBD Technical Series No. 12</ref>; Wec
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  • ...n global fisheries. Nature 374: 255-257</ref>) estimated that over 20 % of the marine [[primary production]] is required to sustain fisheries in many inte ...ears<ref name="Jennings1998">Jennings, S. and Kaiser, M. 1998. The effects of fishing on marine ecosystems. Adv. Mar. Biol. 34: 201-352</ref>.
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  • ...weed (macro-algae) ecosystem services]] and [[Diversity and classification of marine benthic algae]]. ...nsl, K., Filbee-Dexter, K. and Pedersen, M. F. 2019. Status and trends for the world’s kelp forests, in World seas: An environmental evaluation, ed. C.
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  • ...l distribution is crucial in addition to the hazard analysis. This done in the multi-criteria [[vulnerability]] assessment. ...er-Ording at the German North Sea Coast combining failure probabilities of the [[coastal defence]] system with micro-scale socio-economic vulnerability an
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  • ..., Schenke, H.W. and Johnson, P. 2008. An improved bathymetric portrayal of the Arctic Ocean: Implications for ocean modeling and geological, geophysical a ...e Fram Strait, the western limit of the Barents Sea, the Bering Strait and the Canadian Archipelago (Fig. 1).
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