environments provide essential supporting, regulating, provisioning and cultural ecosystem services. Anthropogenic stressors such as nutrient input from agriculture, pollution, sediment dumping, and user pressures
litter floating on the ocean’s surface is considerably smaller than the total amount of marine anthropogenic plastic. Based on litter surveys in 680 regions, a recent study estimates that roughly 269,000
Arctic and Antarctic is difficult because natural variability is large, masking the evidence of anthropogenic influences. Atmospheric measurements of surface energy balance, heat and moisture fluxes, cloud
acoustic environment and marine mammal ecology? How can we best minimize potential impacts of anthropogenic noise on marine mammals? Our focus: We explore the distribution and behavior of whales and seals
and classification tasks in marine passive acoustic data, both for biological sounds as well as anthropogenic sounds. www.researchgate.net/profile/Elena_Schall Dr. Ilse van Opzeeland I see sound as an invaluable [...] marine mammal diversity via their acoustic behavior. I am particularly interested in the impact of anthropogenic noise on polar ocean soundscapes and its impact on the soundscape and (acoustic) ecology of marine
specified activity " (ISO18405, 3.1.1.2). Ambient sound is composed of natural abiotic and biotic and anthropogenic sounds. Natural abiotic ('geophonic') sounds include sound produced by wind, waves and ice movement [...] space and how does it relate to other environmental and ecological factors? How do natural and anthropogenic sounds contribute to the overall acoustic environment of an area? Which role does the character
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and biological pumps of carbon will shift in future, hence whether changes in climate due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions will be amplified or dampened. As physical oceanographers we are inv [...] that the Weddell Sea bottom water became warmer during the last decades, and that its content of anthropogenic CO2 increased continuously; by detailed investigations it could be shown that the densest part
disciplines at the Alfred Wegener Institute were investigating how the carbon cycle has altered by anthropogenic influence and how this affects the oceans. But it took ten years after the working group started
definitely made a solid start: in the spring of 2015 they published the freely available book Marine Anthropogenic Litter, which summarises the current state of knowledge on marine litter research. Litter on an