Behavioral Indicators in Marine Conservation: Lessons from a Pristine Seagrass Ecosystem

Marine Ecosystem Diversity in the Arabian Gulf: Threats and Conservation

Early warning indicators for river nutrient and sediment loads in tropical seagrass beds: a benchmark from a near-pristine archipelago in Indonesia.

In remote, tropical areas human influences increase, potentially threatening pristine seagrass systems. We aim (i) to provide a bench-mark for a near-pristine seagrass system in an archipelago in East Kalimantan, by quantifying a large spectrum of abiotic and biotic properties in seagrass meadows and (ii) to identify early warning indicators for river sediment and nutrient loading, by comparing...

Marine birds as indicators of Arctic marine ecosystem health: linking the Northern Ecosystem Initiative to long-term studies.

Marine birds are sensitive indicators of the condition of marine ecosystems in the Arctic, partly because they feed at the top of the arctic food chain. The Northern Ecosystem Initiative (NEI) recently supported four separate studies that investigated aspects of Arctic marine bird science which simultaneously addressed goals of the NEI to better understand northern ecosystems and their response...

Concerns of resistant markers in marine ecosystem transformed plants

World population growth and requirement to global food security, application of genetic engineering and utilization of transgenic organisms have made more important. Using this technology, without regarding to its risks, can cause loses to environment. To generate transgenic organisms, selection systems are applied that cause to selective growth of transformed cells. Antibiotic resistance genes...

New Tools to Identify the Location of Seagrass Meadows: Marine Grazers as Habitat Indicators

Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Warrnambool, VIC, Australia, Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes, CSIC, Blanes, Spain, Oceans and Coasts Program, Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore, India, 4 Institute for Wetland and Water Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 5 Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah Unive...