Dominique van Asperen's List: Marine Biology

Monitoring jellyfish swarms along Mediterranean coasts and in the open sea.

"Cefas makes an important contribution to securing healthy and sustainable
marine and freshwater environments so that current and future generations can
prosper."

"Animal Diversity Web
(ADW)
is an online database of animal natural history, distribution,
classification, and conservation biology at the
University of Michigan"

"The programme began in 1987 and was the first regional-scale programme in UK.
Its aims have been to provide essential coastal data to inform tidal flood and
coastal erosion risk management decisions between the Humber and Thames
estuaries, which includes the low-lying and potentially vulnerable Anglian
coastal frontage."

"In recent
decades several species of skate and ray around the British coast have
dramatically declined in numbers. The empty eggcases that wash up on to our
beaches all year round are an easily accessible source of information on the
whereabouts of skate and ray nursery grounds."

"Following an agreement made between the Higher Education Funding Council for
England (HEFCE) and SeaZone Solutions Ltd, EDINA has developed a subscription
service which delivers marine maps and data to Higher and Further Education
institutions."

"Hi this is Tonya's Marine Science (Marine Biology and Oceanography) based
website. I am at Bangor University doing Marine Biology / Oceanography."

"Biodiversity is an all-inclusive term to describe the total variation among
living organisms of our planet. In its simplest form, biodiversity or biological
diversity









Killer whale Orcinus orca (Copyright
SMRU)
is therefore 'Life on Earth' and includes marine
biodiversity 'Life in the Seas and Oceans"

"Information on 886 marine species around the coasts of Britain and Ireland can
be viewed below. Advanced reviews include information on
the biology, distribution, life history and likely sensitivity to human
activities and natural events, and are peer reviewed where possible. Intermediate pages provide an overview of a species, similar
to that found in an ID guide. Basic information is
provided for younger users. Use of information on these web pages are subject to
MarLIN's"