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Bathymetry
Sources:
World Data Center for Marine Geology & Geophysics. 2001. 2-Minute Gridded Global Relief Data (ETOPO2?)
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/01mgg04.html (accessed November 12, 2007) |
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Benefits from Marine and Costal Ecosystems and Activities
Sources:
Anne Plat McGinn, The Health of Oceans, Worldwatch paper 145, Worldwatch Insitute, Costanza, The value of the World's Ecosystem Services and Natural capital, Ecological Economics 1998
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Big Stessors
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Atmospheric CO2 concentrations, 1958-2007 at Mauna Loa observatory, Hawaii
Sources:
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory. 2007. Monthly mean atmospheric carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii.
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/co2_data_mlo.html (Accessed November 8, 2007) |
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Calcium carbonate availability for corals and planktons, 1994 and 2100 (projection) due to antropogenic carbon dioxide emissions
Sources:
Donner, S.D., Skirving, W.J., Little, C.M., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Oppenheimer, M. 2005. Global assessment of coral bleaching and required rates of adaptation under climate change. Global Change Biology vol, 11, 2251-2265.
Orr, James C. 2005. Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms. Nature, vol 437, 681-686. |
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Scenarios for tropical coral reef thermal stresses
Sources:
Donner, S.D., Skirving, W.J., Little, C.M., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Oppenheimer, M. 2005. Global assessment of coral bleaching and required rates of adaptation under climate change. Global Change Biology vol, 11, 2251-2265.
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Scenarios for tropical coral reef thermal stresses
Source:
Donner, S.D., Skirving, W.J., Little, C.M., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Oppenheimer, M. 2005. Global assessment of coral bleaching and required rates of adaptation under climate change. Global Change Biology vol, 11, 2251-2265.
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Distribution of corals, tropical reefs and cold water corals
Sources:
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. 2005. Global Cold-Water Coral Distribution (points). Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. 2005. coral1km_v7_2003. Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC |
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Concentrated Cummulative impacts in the primary fishing grounds resulting in collapse or greatly reduced recovery rates
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Tropical Cyclone Frequency
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PREVIEW Global Cyclone Asymmetric Windspeed Profile, UNEP/GRID-Europe
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Trends in number of reported disaster events
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Catches in the Mauritania Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) 1950-2002
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Fishery Hotspots
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World fisheries and aquaculture production
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FAO. 2007. The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2006. Rome, Italy: FAO |
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Locations of known flushing events
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Human development in costal regions
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Invasive Marine Species Pathways and Origins (Invasive Vectors)
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Invasive species: pathways and areas of major infestations
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Changes to Cocoanut Beach (Dominica) after the 1995 hurricane season
Source:
Dominica National Communication to the UNFCCC 2001
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Ocean productivity 1998-2006
Source:
Oregon State University. 2007. Ocean Productivity - Net Primary Productivity,VGPM/SeaWIFS data.
http://web.science.oregonstate.edu/ocean.productivity/
onlineVgpmSWData.php (Accessed November 5, 2007) |
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Oxygen depleted coastal zones
Source:
UNEP. 2004. GEO Yearbook 2003. Nairobi, Kenya: UNEP
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Mean Number of Planktons per CPR sample
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Wastewater/pollution
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UNEP
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Causes of Sea Level Change
Source:
David Griggs, in Climate Change 2001 Synhesis Report, The Third Assessment Report of the IPCC, Cambridge University Press 2001
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World ocean thermohaline circulation
The global conveyor belt thermohaline circulation is driven primarily by the formation and sinking of deep water (from around 1500m to the Antarctic bottom water overlying the bottom of the ocean)
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