During the last years an unusual form of pollution by the  merchant ships, seriously harm the Black sea ecosystem. Thus the exotic species  accidentally  transported from the other parts of the Ocean with the ballast waters pumped out close to the Black sea coast were adapted successfully and developed violently, because they have not natural enemies to restrict their population. Investigation of the ballast waters by taking samples from ship's ballast tanks carried out in 2008-2009 in...

 

Australia’s marine bioregional planning is shifting gear form the design of the National Representative System of Maine Protected Areas (NRSMPA) to its implementation and management. In the last three years, the Marine Biodiversity Hub has confirmed existing spatial descriptions of marine biodiversity around Australia and developed new descriptors producing national maps that have contributed to the design and placement of the marine reserve estate.

 
Biodiversity research requires access to location and abundance data supported by accompanying metadata. It is often desirable to have access to co-located hydrographic and other environmental data as well.

A recent study of the large-scale biogeography of benthic deep-sea copepods discovered that species of Paramesochridae were found in South Atlantic abyssal plains and in the deep Southern Ocean. Nineteen morphospecies from four genera (Emertonia Wilson, 1932, Leptopsyllus T. Scott, 1894, Paramesochra T. Scott, 1892, Wellsopsyllus Kunz, 1981) were distinguished. For example, Emertonia andeep (Veit-Köhler, 2004) and E.

Reef Check Australia (RCA) is a not-for-profit organisation which has been training members of the Australian community in the Reef Check reef health monitoring method since 2001. The participants are SCUBA-divers who want to make a difference by collecting quantitative data on key indicator species and threats to reef health on the Great Barrier Reef and in South-East Queensland rocky reefs. In order to participate in surveys, volunteers must undertake an intensive training programme, at...