Developing important marine mammal area criteria: learning from ecologically or biologically significant areas and key biodiversity areas
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Template for Submission of Scientific Information to Describe Areas Meeting Scientific Criteria for Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas Title/Name of the area: Important Coastal and Marine Biodiversity Areas of India
in less than 150 words) The coastal and marine ecosystems of peninsular India have been surveyed in detail to identify and prioritize the ‘Important Coastal and Marine Biodiversity Areas (ICMBA)’ for their better management, in addition to the existing Marine Protected Areas. This study followed the standardized global, national and regional level approaches to develop a criteria with several i...
متن کاملSubmission of Scientific Information to Describe Areas Meeting Scientific Criteria for Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas Title/name of the Area
The proposed EBSA covers 33,567 km in the upper Bay of Bengal at the outflow of world’s third largest river system. It is fed by leaf litter and fish and crustacean reproduction in the world’s largest mangrove forest, and it includes the head of a submarine canyon which sustains the world’s largest sediment fan and upwells productivity into a seasonally reversing current gyre with associated ed...
متن کاملTemplate for Submission of Scientific Information to Describe Areas Meeting Scientific Criteria for Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas Title/Name of the area: Negombo Lagoon, Sri Lanka
in less than 150 words) Negombo Lagoon is one of the most productive and sensitive ecosystems in Sri Lanka. The main fresh water input comes to this lagoon from the rivers Dandugam Oya and Ja-ela. The Negombo Lagoon and its coastal environment have had a long association with the fishery industry. The salinity of Negombo Lagoon is strongly related to the monsoon rains and varies from almost zer...
متن کاملResults of efforts by the Convention on Biological Diversity to describe ecologically or biologically significant marine areas.
In 2004, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) addressed a United Nations (UN) call for area-based planning, including for marine-protected areas that resulted in a global effort to describe ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs). We summarized the results, assessed their consistency, and evaluated the process developed by the Secretariat of the CBD to e...
متن کاملTemplate for Submission of Scientific Information to Describe Areas Meeting Scientific Criteria for Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas Title/Name of the area: Indus delta and Indus Canyon
in less than 150 words) The Indus Fan with its 1500 Km length, 960 Km maximum width, and 1.1 x 10 (power of 6) sq. Km. area, is the most extensive physiographical province of the Arabian Sea in the northwest Indian Ocean. It is bounded by the continental margin of India-Pakistan and ChagosLaccadive ridge on the east, by the Owen and Murray ridges on the west and north and by the carslberg ridge...
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عنوان ژورنال: Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1052-7613
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.2513