Indo Pacific
Indo-Pacific Region & South China Sea: Security Challenges
... Abstract: The fact is that the U.S. national interest and China’s foreign policy aims and objectives revolve around the security concerns in pacific regions and South China Sea. Actually the US always desire to ...
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Some rare Indo-Pacific coral species are probable hybrids
... Allele/haplotype data from nuclear and mitochondrial loci were determined for 17 rare and 15 common Indo-Pacific Acropora species as well as all 3 Caribbean species of Acropora (Table 1) and Isopora ...
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Baseline for ostracod based northwestern Pacific and Indo Pacific shallow marine paleoenvironmental reconstructions: ecological modeling of species distributions
... Sinocytheridea impressa (Sinocytheridea latiovata; see Whatley and Zhao, 1988a) is the most dominant species in this study, the relative abundance of which is significantly correlated with salinity (negative), dissolved ...
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Toxoplasmosis in Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphins (Sousa chinensis) from Queensland
... Four S chinensis that stranded in northern Queensland in 2000 and 2001 had encephalitis attributable to infection with T gondii. Clinical examination was possible in only one of these and it showed clinical signs of ...
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The US Factor in Indo-Pacific Region & Its Security Concerns
... the Indo- Pacific ...and indo-pacific region. The emerging trends and issues in the Indo-Pacific regions offer a unique opportunity as well as a daunting challenge to the ...
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Rhetorical Strategies in Political Texts of "Indo-pacific Strategy" of the Abe Government
... In December 2012, Abe took office again. At this time, domestically, affected by the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis and the East Japan Earthquake in 2011, Japan's economy suffered heavy losses, the GDP growth was ...
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The climate response of the Indo-Pacific warm pool to glacial sea level
... Figure 2. Changes in hydroclimate of the Indo-Pacific warm pool (IPWP) at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Network of (a) terrestrial and (b) marine proxies showing changes in LGM hydroclimate compiled by ...
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Cultural transmission of tool use by Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) provides access to a novel foraging niche
... Culturally transmitted tool use has important ecological and evolutionary consequences and has been proposed to be a significant driver of human evolution. Such evidence is still scarce in animals. In cetaceans, tool use ...
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Evoked potential audiogram of an Indo Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis)
... 1998), the tucuxi, Sotalia fluviatilis guianensis (Sauerland and Dehnhardt, 1998), the Yangtze finless porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis (Popov et al., 2005), Gervais’ beaked whale, Mesoplodon europeaus ...
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Evaluation of different management approaches to reduce the bycatch of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) and Australian snubfin dolphins (Orcaella heinsohni) in Queensland, Australia
... Incidental bycatch in gillnets is amongst the most serious global threat to marine mammals. Bycatch in commercial fishing gear is particularly troublesome, as this industry is vital for the sustenance of coastal human ...
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Understanding the drivers of white syndrome coral diseases on Indo-Pacific reefs
... Tissue loss coral diseases, collectively known as white syndromes, impact coral reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific by inducing significant mortality of reef building corals, including often dominant ...
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Population expansion and genetic structure in Carcharhinus brevipinna in the southern Indo-Pacific
... Our genetic structure results indicate the delineation of two management units for C. brevipinna in the southern Indo- Pacific – Australia and South Africa. The most appropriate boundary between these ...
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Dynamics and drivers of coral disease on Indo-Pacific reefs
... although the mean disease prevalence was relatively low (only 3% of scleractinian corals affected by disease) (Page, 2009). Surveys conducted on 8 longitudinal and cross-shelf locations on the northern and southern GBR ...
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Evolving Power Game in Indo Pacific Region and India
... Rising China is clearly a key factor in the Indo-pacific region and its rise is swiftly altering the geostrategic equations in the region. Its assertive foreign policy, growing economic and military power ...
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Coral disease pathogens of the Indo-Pacific Ocean
... the Indo-Pacific, heavy rains results in large terrestrial flows into inshore and fringing reefs, which carry nutrients from agricultural lands that promote eutrophication and bacteria that directly impact ...
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Maritime Security Challenges in the Indo-Pacific Region
... term Indo-Pacific to describe the changing regional security system in ...The Indo-Pacific is not a concept framed solely by the rise of India; rather it might be called an ...
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The molecular biogeography of the Indo‐Pacific: Testing hypotheses with multispecies genetic patterns
... the Indo‐Pacific, including the collection of extensive georeferenced metadata to accompany each ...the Indo‐Pacific will also benefit from the addition of thousands of loci generated by ...
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A new record of the indo-Pacific Whitespotted surgeonfish, Acanthurus guttatus, in the eastern tropical Pacific (Isla del Coco, Costa Rica)
... the Pacific North Equatorial Countercurrent (NECC) from May to October, which intensifies during El Niño phenomena (Lizano, ...stronger Pacific NECC can enhance the eastward dispersal of marine larvae, ...
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Coral disease pathogens of the Indo-Pacific Ocean
... following Indo-Pacific scleractinian coral diseases: black band disease (BBD), red bands and white syndromes (WS's), and to clarify their role in disease ...
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The biology and ecology of the invasive Indo-Pacific lionfish
... Whitfield et al. (2007) provided the first assessment of lionfish densities off North Carolina and reported an average of 21 lionfish per hectare across 17 locations in 2004. Lionfish densities off North Carolina have ...
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