Almost all ICES member countries have policies that address the impacts of human activities on marine ecosystems. These policies may explicitly be framed as an implementation of an ecosystem approach. An important example is the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) of the European Union (EC, 2008), which is a comprehensive framework for achieving good environmental status (GES) for Europe...

Chronic undersampling of the marine environment, including both biological and physical components, has been and remains a major block to understanding how marine ecosystems function and how they respond to changes, whether natural or anthropogenic. Consequently, data-based models that accurately predict local variations in the abundance of plant and animal life in the sea are rare or do not ex...

the spanish turbot aquaculture sector holds a top position in the international market. thisactivity is mainly developed along the galician coast (nw spain). this article evaluates the environmentalperformance of galician turbot aquaculture according to the life cycle assessment (lca) methodology.previously, on account of the expected relevance of feed for aquaculture, marine aquafeed productio...

A summary of knowledge and recommendations for the conservation of marine birds and their habitats throughout the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem.

Human multitasking is often the result of self-init iated interruptions in the performance of an ongoing task. These self-interruptions occur in the absence of external triggers such as electronic alerts or email notifications. Compared to externally induced interruptions, self-interr uptions have not received enough research attention. To address this gap, this paper develops a typology of sel...

SUHHARY Data obtained from 428 calves (59 Cheju native cattle 60 Br hm. ' a an Gertrudis and 269 crossbreds) were analyzed to es t~mate main eff ' d h. f ects of mental factors an eterosis. Nat~ng type, sex 0 .calf, and year of significant sources of variation on most of the we~gh ts at preweani weaning periods. Brah;-.c.,' x Chej u native cat tIe c ro ss showed hetero:~ .... on birth weight. H...

The work reported in this paper is part of a project aimed at designing and prototyping a n application development environment that allows easy development of platform-independen t distributed applications . The main goals of th e database subproject are to investigate methods for (1) providing (SQL) database acces s and (2) supporting transaction managemen t within a distributed programming e...

Human activity is extremely complex. Current technology allows us to handcraft real-time perception systems for a specific perceptual task. However, such an approach is inadequate for building systems that accommodate the variety that is typical of human environments. In this paper we define a framework for context aware observation of human activity. A context in this framework is defined as a...

in the first experiment, twelve species of the most plentiful and fresh seaweeds and one species of seagrass from the beach were collected at kingston, south australia. all species were then separately sun-and oven-dried and ground. the ground samples were analysed for dry matter, ash, organic matter, crude protein, crude fibers, ether extract and digestibility in vitro. the digestible and ...

The California Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME), a temperate marine region dominated by episodic upwelling, is predicted to experience rapid environmental change in the future due to ocean acidification. The aragonite saturation state within the California Current System is predicted to decrease in the future with near-permanent undersaturation conditions expected by the year 2050. Thus, ...