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... These activities and phenomena have resulted in clear, serious, and widespread social, economic, and biological impacts including: · dramatic reductions in most of the preferred edible fish and shellfish species in the world's oceans; products; · reduction or loss of species with important potential for biomedical · altered aesthetic and recreational value of many coastal habitats, such as coral reefs, bays, marshes, rocky shores, and beaches; · vast changes in the species composition and abundance of the ecologically important animals and plants within and between impacted ecosystems; and · changes in the basic functioning of ecosystems, including the rates and 1
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... This report identifies the urgent need for a national research program on Biological Diversity in Marine Systems and outlines a research agenda. This research agenda proposes a fundamental change in the approach by which biodiversity is measured and studied in the ocean by emphasizing an integrated regional-scale research strategy within an environmentally relevant and socially responsible framework.
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... in investigations of the patterns, processes, and consequences of marine biodiversity; and to use the new understanding of the patterns, processes, and consequences of marine biodiversity derived from this regional-scale research approach to improve predictions of the impacts of human activities on the marine environment. As envisioned by the committee, this national research agenda for marine biodiversity would lead to novel, integrated, multiple-scale studies that would improve understanding of how human activities alter marine biodiversity and of why and how such alterations change the functioning of ecosystems.
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... In summary, this marine biodiversity initiative would be: · An environmentally responsible and socially relevant basic research program on the causes and consequences of changes in marine biological diversity due to effects of human activities. · A research agenda guided by well-defined research questions that will be addressed concurrently in several different regional-scale systems.
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