Aiming to protect marine biodiversity and ban destructive fishing practices, the new parks span 27,500 km² and mark a bold ...

Biodiversity (from "biological diversity") refers to the variety of living species and organisms — and their genes — that inhabit a particular area, from microscopic bacteria to small and ...

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff ...

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The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has collected body size data for more than 85,000 marine animal species and ...

The long-term impacts of marine heatwaves on biodiversity and management strategies required to mitigate further damage were ...

RWE and ARC Marine are using reef cubes at Rampion Wind Farm to boost biodiversity and infrastructure protection ...

Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB) Department of Economics and Law, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.

Marine sponges play a critical role in ocean ecosystems as both habitat formers and nutrient cyclers. Their extensive and complex microbiomes, comprising bacteria, archaea and other microorganisms ...