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Great white shark in ocrean
Predation
ConservationInstitute Team

Predators

Sharks off the east coast of North America have declined precipitously in the last 15 years. The number of hammerhead sharks has dropped by 89%,

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Conservation
ConservationInstitute Team

Pollution

Many pollution-related mechanisms degrade ecosystems and maintain them at degraded states. Some of the pollution topics are addressed below. Oil PollutionPersistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)Dead ZonesMarine DebrisNoise Pollution

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By JMKubler - During a visit at the zooPreviously published: none, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24343622
Animal Profiles
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Steller’s Sea Eagle

Seasonal change in habitat use in Steller’s sea eagles By: Mutsuyuki Ueta, Michael J. McGrady, Hajime Nakagawa, Fumio Sato and Vladimir B. Masterov Abstract Habitat-use

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pacific sleeper shark
Endangered & Threatened Species
ConservationInstitute Team

Pacific Sleeper Shark Population Increasing

Information suggests that Pacific sleeper shark abundance is increasing. Pacific sleeper shark data was analyzed from fishery independent longline surveys in the Gulf of Alaska

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Sleeper Sharks Threat

Sleeper sharks are often caught on commercial sablefish long-line gear in Alaska with consistent catches in Prince William Sound and Southeast Alaska waters. Sleeper sharks

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Ocean Change Initiative

More than 70% of out planets surface is covered by ocean. We rely on it for many things including food, transport and pleasure. However, in

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predatory hawk flying
Predation
ConservationInstitute Team

Predation

Predators can impact ecosystems through the process of ‘top-down’ control, at times resulting in changes in species composition, changes in species diversity, and regime shifts.

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large number of fish on boat deck with fisherman emptying fish net
Ocean Matters
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Ecosystem-Based Management

Ecosystem-based management is dependent upon scientific research to determine the ecological interactions and processes necessary to sustain ecosystem composition, structure and function in the environments

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lost eden book cover a marine ecologists meaning in an oil spill
Earth Matters
ConservationInstitute Team

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″] [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] The following article was published in the May-June 2000 issue of E-Magazine: March of 1989 was the

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