scholarly journals The Role of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission in Promoting Cooperative Research on Marine Ecosystems and Living Marine Resources

Oceanography ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 62-71
Author(s):  
Bill Peterson ◽  
Ned Cyr
Keyword(s):  
Marine Ecosystems ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

Environmental Assessment in Marine Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: Practice and Prospects

2017 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 252-255
Author(s):  
Robin Warner
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Marine Environment ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Marine Ecosystems ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Governance Structures ◽  
National Jurisdiction ◽  
Marine Areas

Knowledge of the threats posed to the oceans by human activity has expanded beyond marine pollution to encompass recognition of the risks posed to vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) by overfishing, destructive fisheries practices, and invasive exploitation of living and nonliving marine resources. However, with the still-developing state of marine scientific research, the majority of activities at sea continue to occur with limited knowledge of their impacts on the marine environment. In this climate of uncertainty, environmental assessment assumes heightened importance. While governance structures will generally exist to facilitate environmental assessment in marine areas within national jurisdiction, these structures are still developing for marine areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ).

scholarly journals Local Wisdom Values of Maritime Community in Preserving Marine Resources in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-94
Author(s):  
Sem Touwe
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
The People ◽  
Traditional Institutions ◽  
Customary Laws ◽  
Living Objects

This study identifies and describes the local wisdom carried out by the coastal communities, especially the people of North Seram, Maluku in preserving the island and marine environment as well as the customary institutions in determining and guarding local wisdom of coastal communities to manage marine resources. The marine resource is started to weaken along with the development of modern technology. This paper provides contemporary phenomena regarding the weakness of customary laws and traditional institutions that regulate marine resources, including social values in the form of rituals, representing the relationship between humans and their environment. The protection of marine resources around them will be an important discussion to see the role of government and society in preserving marine and coastal resources. This study used a qualitative approach to produce descriptive explanations from reports, book reviews, and documents that describe theories and information of both past and present. The result is that the local wisdom maintained as superior cultural practices that are beneficial to human survival, especially in maintaining the sustainability and balance between humans and living objects.

scholarly journals Disparate compound eyes of Cambrian radiodonts reveal their developmental growth mode and diverse visual ecology

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (49) ◽  
pp. eabc6721
Author(s):  
John R. Paterson ◽  
Gregory D. Edgecombe ◽  
Diego C. García-Bellido
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Compound Eye ◽  
Marine Ecosystems ◽  
Growth Mode ◽  
Compound Eyes ◽  
Suspension Feeding ◽  
Ecological Diversity ◽  
Crown Group ◽  
Developmental Growth

Radiodonts are nektonic stem-group euarthropods that played various trophic roles in Paleozoic marine ecosystems, but information on their vision is limited. Optical details exist only in one species from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale of Australia, here assigned to Anomalocaris aff. canadensis. We identify another type of radiodont compound eye from this deposit, belonging to ‘Anomalocaris’ briggsi. This ≤4-cm sessile eye has >13,000 lenses and a dorsally oriented acute zone. In both taxa, lenses were added marginally and increased in size and number throughout development, as in many crown-group euarthropods. Both species’ eyes conform to their inferred lifestyles: The macrophagous predator A. aff. canadensis has acute stalked eyes (>24,000 lenses each) adapted for hunting in well-lit waters, whereas the suspension-feeding ‘A.’ briggsi could detect plankton in dim down-welling light. Radiodont eyes further demonstrate the group’s anatomical and ecological diversity and reinforce the crucial role of vision in early animal ecosystems.

35 Threatened Species and Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goodwin Edward J
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Threatened Species ◽  
Marine Ecosystems ◽  
Habitat Conservation ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Environmental Treaties ◽  
Anthropogenic Threats

This chapter examines ‘threatened species’ and ‘vulnerable marine ecosystems’ (VME) in the law of the sea. It teases out the broad-spectrum responses of international law that tackle principal anthropogenic threats, including the want of jurisdiction over marine resources, unsustainable fisheries, pollution, and habitat conservation. It then extracts rules from within environmental treaties designed to catch emergency cases, where individual species are close to extinction or sites are being degraded and disturbed.

Clinical Trials in Recurrent Ovarian Cancer

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 771-775 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Friedlander ◽  
Edward Trimble ◽  
Anna Tinker ◽  
David Alberts ◽  
Elisabeth Avall-Lundqvist ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ovarian Cancer ◽  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Gynecologic Cancer ◽  
Recurrent Ovarian Cancer ◽  
Consensus Conference ◽  
Ca 125 ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
International Consensus

The 4th Ovarian Cancer Consensus Conference of the Gynecologic Cancer InterGroup was held in Vancouver, Canada, in June 2010. Representatives of 23 cooperative research groups studying gynecologic cancers gathered to establish international consensus on issues critical to the conduct of large randomized trials. Group C, 1 of the 3 discussion groups, examined recurrent ovarian cancer, and we report the consensus reached regarding 4 questions. These included the following: (1) What is the role of cytoreductive surgery for recurrent ovarian cancer? (2) How do we define distinct patient populations in need of specific therapeutic approaches? (3) Should end points for trials with recurrent disease vary from those of first-line trials? (4) Is CA-125 progression alone sufficient for entry/eligibility into clinical trials?

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