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Predation
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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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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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Earth Matters
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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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Le Telegramme du Morbihan

Below is an article that appeared in the French newspaper Le Telegramme du Morbihan on 20 April 2000. The article explains Bruce Wright’s visit to

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Fellow, Sean Van Sommeran

Sean Van Sommeran has served as the Executive Director of the Santa Cruz, California based Pelagic Shark Research Foundation (PSRF) since he established the organization

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Ted Wong

Dr. Theodore “Ted” Wong’s career has included both field and theoretical approaches to ecology, but his recent work has focused on the application of computer

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Richard Nelson

Richard Nelson is a cultural anthropologist and creative nonfiction writer whose work focuses on human relationships to the natural world. He is also the Executive

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Fish

ORDER MYXINIFORMES             MYXINIDAE (hagfishes)                   Myxininae                   Eptatretinae CLASS CEPHALASPIDOMORPHI ORDER PETROMYZONTIFORMES             PETROMYZONTIDAE (lampreys)                   Petromyzontinae                   Geotriinae                   Mordaciinae CLASS ELASMOBRANCHII ORDER

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