Socioeconomic aspects of the Humboldt Current Large Marine Ecosystem – Extended Summary – Consultancy developed for the TDA-SAP process of the GEF-UNDP project: Towards ecosystem based management of the Humboldt Current Large Marine Ecosystem. Lima, Peru. 21p.

CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 90, NO. 10, 25 MAY 2006 1311 livelihoods through marine fishing in the conservation of marine ecosystems, it was also evident that alternatives need to be formulated to minimize the growing pressure on these ecosystems. Providing incentives for prudent extraction of biological resources, sea farming and sea ranching were some of the suggestions made by the speakers. The pa...

In the last decades, climate change and human pressures have increasingly dramatically impacted ocean worldwide, calling for urgent actions to safeguard coastal marine ecosystems. The European Commission, in particular, has set ambitious targets member states with two major directives, Water Framework Directive (WFD) Marine Strategy (MSFD), both designed protect environment EU waters. Diverse b...

Ocean climate affects the life history and demography of top marine predators through changes in local prey availability. In the California Current System, abundance and distribution of mid trophic-level forage fish may be affected by seasonal and interannual variability in upwelling. We tested the hypothesis that upwelling influences forage fish availability and response of a seabird, but that...

Migrating humpback whales from northern and southern feeding grounds come to the tropical waters near Osa Peninsula, Pacific of Costa Rica, to reproduce and raise their calves. Planning effective marine protected areas that encompass humpback critical habitats require data about which oceanographic features influence distribution during the breeding period. This study examines the relationship ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the cross-sectional relationship between nutrient status and psychometric and imaging indices of brain health in dementia-free elders. METHODS Thirty plasma biomarkers of diet were assayed in the Oregon Brain Aging Study cohort (n = 104). Principal component analysis constructed nutrient biomarker patterns (NBPs) and regression models assessed the relationship of these wi...

In many physical, technological, social, and economic applications, one is commonly faced with the task of estimating statistical properties, such as mean first passage times of a temporal continuous process, from empirical data (experimental observations). Typically, however, an accurate and reliable estimation of such properties directly from the data alone is not possible as the time series ...

Urban structures in the form of pontoons and pilings represent major coastal habitats for marine organisms and understanding the factors causing abundances of organisms to differ between these and natural habitat has been neglected in the study of coastal ecology. It has been proposed that composition of substrata explain differences previously described between subtidal assemblages of epibiota...

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Functional connectivity, the degree to which the landscape facilitates or impedes movement, depends on how animals perceive costs and benefits associated with habitat features and integrate them into a movement path. There have been few studies on functional connectivity in marine organisms, despite its importance for the effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas. In this study, we asked how open...