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Coral bleaching disturbs the structure of fish communities

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Marine and halieutic biodiversity, Ocean, climate, impacts - Mauritius, Kenya, Reunion, Maldives, Seychelles, Tanzania

September 2008

Research work reported on recently by an international research team1, including an IRD scientist, brought out evidence of the impact on the fish communities of a mass bleaching event resulting from the 1997-1998 El Niño climatic episode. The investigation was wide in scope, focusing on more ...

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Sub-Saharan Africa : the population emergency

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Human and social sciences - South Africa, Angola, Archipelago of the Canaries, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central Africa, Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Democratic republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Chad, Togo, Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mauritius, Kenya, Reunion, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Uganda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe

December 2007

The population of Sub-Saharan Africa is continuing to grow at twice the rate recorded in Latin America and Asia. This exceptional population growth is a major handicap for efforts to achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Objectives (MDO) in most of the countries lying South of the Sahara. With ...

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