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OBIS records for ocean sunfish, Mola mola, as at July 2018, visualised by the OBIS mapper (www.obis.org). The Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS), formerly Ocean Biogeographic Information System, is a web-based access point to information about the distribution and abundance of living species in the ocean.
Ocean Acidification; Human Health; Research results show that warmer water species of plankton are moving northwards towards the colder North Atlantic at a rate of about 23 km (14 mi) per year and that some plankton species have moved 1,000 km (620 mi) north over the course of 50 years due to regional climate warming.
Freshwater species are beginning to decline at twice the rate of species that live on land or in the ocean. This rapid loss has already placed 27% of 29,500 species dependent on fresh water on the IUCN Red List. [100] Global populations of freshwater fish are collapsing due to water pollution and overfishing. Migratory fish populations have ...
According to Jesse Ausubel, Senior Research Associate of the Program for the Human Environment of Rockefeller University and science advisor to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the idea for a "Census of Marine Life" originated in conversations between himself and Dr. J. Frederick Grassle, an oceanographer and benthic ecology professor at Rutgers University, in 1996. [3]
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The Red List Index (sampled approach) (SRLI) has been developed in order to determine the threat status and also trends of lesser-known and less charismatic species groups. It is a collaboration between IUCN members and is coordinated through the Institute of Zoology (IoZ), the research division of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).
In ecology, rarefaction is a technique to assess species richness from the results of sampling. Rarefaction allows the calculation of species richness for a given number of individual samples, based on the construction of so-called rarefaction curves. This curve is a plot of the number of species as a function of the number of samples.
A new climate report card paints a grim future if emissions aren't reduced: "Climate change is rewiring marine ecosystems at an alarming rate." Most marine species will face extinction without ...