Examples of using Seamounts in English and their translations into Chinese
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Of the many thousands of seamounts worldwide, only around 300 have been sampled extensively by scientific standards.
The distribution of seamounts and fracture zones is relatively well known from recent topographic syntheses(see the database of the Census of Marine Life on Seamounts). .
(c) Seamounts will be chosen that have little or no sediment on the summit region, which implies strong and persistent bottom currents.
Seamounts with more than 60 per cent sediment cover will likely be passed over in favour of guyots with more promising crust distributions.
Rogers," The biology of seamounts", Advances in Marine Biology, vol. 30, 1994, pp. 306-350.
Seamount communities are complex and variable; two seamounts at the same depth can have completely different biological components.
New Zealand has closed 19 seamounts, covering 11.5 million hectares, for the purpose of biodiversity protection.
The area they discovered is roughly the size of New York state, It has 1,133 volcanic cones and seamounts.
The interpretation of the multibeam data shows areas C and D to have small isolated seamounts.
The recovery of cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts will also affect the biological communities around them, in particular, seamounts and cold-water coral reefs.
This is intended to facilitate the development of marine protected areas, particularly in vulnerable environments such as seamounts and deep-sea coral habitats.
Deep sea(bathyal and abyssal) habitats(for example, seamounts, deep-sea banks and plateaus, hydrothermal vents and cold-water coral(and other biogenic) reefs).
They precipitate from sea water as thin layers(up to 25 centimetres thick) on volcanic rocks of seamounts and submerged volcanic mountain ranges between water depths of 400 and 4,000 metres.
Seamounts and deepwater corals are both mainly threatened by fishing activities and must therefore be protected through appropriate management and control of destructive fishing practices, in particular bottom trawling.
In 2000, New Zealand prohibited all trawling and dredging in 18 areas around seamounts to protect the sea floor environment, which amounted to an area of approximately 81,000 square kilometres.
As will be seen, the distribution of these species is frequently associated with seamounts, ridges and cold-water corals, where the ecosystem impact is on vulnerable habitats as well as fisheries biomass.
The region of the Pacific contains literally thousands of seamounts, which scientists are finding to be extremely rich in biodiversity and which hold great potential value for future generations.
Closures introduced between 2006 and 2009 on seamounts and in areas where corals and sponges had been identified were maintained after reviews in 2010 were continued.
However, recent preliminary video studies by the Institute of Geosciences of the University of Bergen show very high biological activity, including a rich benthic fauna concentrated on these seamounts.
The study suggested that data, on South Atlantic seamounts, especially in terms of biologically significant data, was at best very patchy and of variable quality.