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Now Browsing: Marine Biodiversity International

A collection of papers that describe the importance of biodiversity in the sea and examines the issues around protection of worldwide biodiversity under severe threat from over exploitation.

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Pacific Islands regional guidelines for Whale and Dolphin watching 2008
Author(s): South Pacific Whale Research Consortium

Whale Watching Guidelines

Added to archive on 06/18/2009 and placed in the following categories:

Marine Biodiversity International | MPA's and Networks International | Pacific Whale Research and Conservation |

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Report on Annual meeting of the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium
Author(s): South Pacific Whale Research Consortium

This report from the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium is for the consideration of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission

Added to archive on 06/18/2009 and placed in the following categories:

Fisheries Management International | Marine Biodiversity International | MPA's and Networks International | Pacific Whale Research and Conservation |

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National Marine Sancturies for whales in the Pacific
Author(s): South Pacific Whale Research Consortium

National Marine Sancturies in the Pacific relating to Whales

Added to archive on 06/18/2009 and placed in the following categories:

Marine Biodiversity International | MPA's and Networks International | Pacific Whale Research and Conservation |

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Mystery of the missing Humpbacks
Author(s): Science Mag

Whale Stocks - illegal hunting
Mystery of the Missing Humpbacks solved by Soviet Data http://www.sciencemag.org

Added to archive on 06/18/2009 and placed in the following categories:

Marine Biodiversity International | MPA's and Networks International | Pacific Whale Research and Conservation |

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Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services
Author(s): Boris Worm

Human-dominated marine ecosystems are experiencing accelerating loss of populations and species, with largely unknown consequences. We analyzed local experiments, long-term regional time series, and global fisheries data to test how biodiversity loss affects marine ecosystem services across temporal and spatial scales. Overall, rates of resource collapse increased and recovery potential, stability, and water quality decreased exponentially with declining diversity. Restoration of biodiversity, in contrast, increased productivity fourfold and decreased variability by 21%, on average. We conclude that marine biodiversity loss is increasingly impairing the ocean’s capacity to provide food, maintain water quality, and recover from perturbations. Yet available data suggest that at this point, these trends are still reversible.

Added to archive on 07/15/2007 and placed in the following categories:

Marine Biodiversity International |

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Shifting Baselines, Marine Reserves, and Leopold’s Biotic Ethic
Author(s): James Bohnsack

The author submits that different human expectations and environmental ethics are key factors preventing the creation of marine reserve networks. A declining base-line in the Carribean is shown based on Nassau grouper landings from Cuba and the US. Common and often conflcting types of conservation ethics in North America is reviewed. The author submits that Leopold’s biotic ethic provides a framework for achieving sustainable resource use based on laws of ecology and human self-interest, although it is accepted that implementing successful marine reserve networks would be a slow and incremental process. The paper concludes that the establishment of no-take marine reserves can help restore human expectations and provide a common basis for conservation by providing a window to the past and vision for the future.

Added to archive on 06/22/2007 and placed in the following categories:

Marine Biodiversity International |

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