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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Irish Sea"”.
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Irish Sea : a socio-ecological system
Recent research has highlighted the need to look beyond the coastal zone and adopt an ecosystem-based approach to sustainable use and conservation in marine management. At the same time there has been a growing recognition that ecosystem management involves coupled, complex socio-ecological systems …
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Trophic relevance of gelatinous zooplankton for commercial fisheries in the Irish Sea
… impact of jellyfish on fish communities in the Irish Sea, and to provide a means for researchers to do the same in marine systems around the world. <br/><br/>Chapter one of this thesis is a broad synthesis of the traditional, as well as the more recent and nuanced view of the role of jellyfish …
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The Existence and Use of Benefit Segments in the Irish Sea Ferry Market
… concept in the understanding of a market. This research undertakes a benefit segmentation of the passenger and freight, sea and air transport markets between Great Britain and Ireland (both Northern Ireland and Eire). In so doing, two areas which have been under-researched are addressed; …
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Modelling the food web in the Irish Sea in the context of a depleted commercial fish community
Irish Sea landings used to be dominated by finfish but now mainly consist of molluscs and crustacea due to stock declines and changing market demands. There has been limited evidence of finfish recovery despite fishing effort reductions, gear restrictions, and area closures. Frustrated and …
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Monuments, society and the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, with particular reference to Cumbria and the northern Irish Sea region
This thesis argues that henges, stone circles and ring cairns form a 'spectrum' of monuments with origins in the earlier Neolithic. In that context it is suggested that some of the structures located beneath long cairns were originally free standing foci. How the monuments might reflect …
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Aspects of the biology of Mya arenaria and Ensis spp. (Mollusca; Bivalvia) in the Irish Sea and adjacent areas
… cycle and health status, of two clam taxa in Irish waters, with particular reference to the Irish Sea area. Monthly samples of the soft shell clam, Mya arenaria, were collected from Bannow Bay, Co. Wexford, Ireland, for sixteen months, and of the razor clam, Ensis spp. from the Skerries region …
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Assessment and prediction of the potential threats of temperature change and invasive species to the sustainability of Northern Irish sea fisheries
Understanding and predicting the way in which species interactions may change under the uncertain climatic future is imperative if the management of important resources is to be successful. Consumer – resource interactions underlie population dynamics and distribution, yet there is little known …
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Quaternary geology of the German North Sea and Western Irish Sea Mud Belt: revised stratigraphies, geotechnical properties, sedimentology and anthropogenic impacts
… sediment stratigraphy at such sites in the North Sea and Irish Sea using traditional techniques, as well as novel applications of geotechnical data, to reconstruct the palaeoenvironmental record. Within the German North Sea sector a combination of core, seismic and in-situ Cone Penetration Testing …
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Exploring Legal Multiculturalism in the Irish Sea: Multiculturalism, Proto-Democracy, and State Formation on the Isle of Man from 900-1300
… of the shared proto-democratic character of the Irish and the Norse legal traditions. Further, I wish to explore how this multiculturalism influenced the development of the state on the island and, coming full circle, what multiculturalism and state formation meant for the future of …
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Atmospheric deposition of trace metals to urban and coastal environments
… metals (Ni, Co. Cu, Pb, Cd, Al and Na) to the Irish Sea and the North-West of England is presented. The fluxes were calculated from determined trace metal concentrations of aerosols (Al, Fe, Mn, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Na, Ni, Pb, V and Zn) and rainwaters (Ni, Co, Cu, Pb, Cd, Al and Na), which were …
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"Space of time or distance of place": Presbyterian diffusion in south-western Scotland and Ulster, 1603-1690
A number of research projects on migration flows between Scotland and Ireland during the Plantation era have been conducted by social and religious historians. By providing an examination of the diffusion of Presbyterianism across the Irish Sea, this thesis addresses some of the dearth of work on …
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Reconstructing ice dynamics in the central sector of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet
… and Scottish borders) of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet exhibits a palimpsest glacial geological and geomorphological signature characteristic of multi-phase ice flow and ice-marginal fluctuations. Despite its influential position at the heart of the British-Irish Ice Sheet, sourced from …
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On the edge-peripheral communities and marginal anthropology
… one is in South-west Wales overlooking the Irish Sea and the other is one of the islands comprising The Orkney archipelago.' This is also a work of marginal anthropology (Fox, 1975) that discusses both conventional and more experimental "ways of telling" in an attempt to interpret human …
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The Manx Bar: The History and Development of a Unique Legal Profession
… common law jurisdiction in the middle of the Irish sea, shaped its own independent legal profession, whilst being less than 30 miles from three developed legal professions: England, Ireland and Scotland. It charts how Manx lawyers developed from a small group of self-taught men into a unique …
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The stratigraphy and morphology of Pleistocene deposits in County Waterford (with special reference to the Ballyvoyle Till)
… this advance as having post~dated one of Irish Sea origin along the south coast. While Watts (1959) considered that the two ice masses were broadly contemporaneous, Synge (1977) suggested that the glacigenic sequence predated the deposition of the underlying raised beach and was …
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The migration and accumulation of radionuclides in the Ravenglass saltmarsh, Cumbria, UK
… Cumbria and one core collected from the Irish Sea, near the effluent pipeline of the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant. Major and trace elements have also been measured to look at the effects of sediment composition and any redox controls on element redistribution. In addition, almost …
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Stakeholder engagement in marine spatial planning
… in the fields of marine science and ecology, research from the social sciences on MSP is still developing, and this thesis will develop a better understanding of the discourses of stakeholder engagement in MSP. Based on a case study of the Irish Sea, the thesis develops an alternative …
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Trophic role of small cetaceans and seals in Irish waters
… marine mammal species that regularly occur in Irish waters was investigated by reconstructing diet using hard parts from digestive tracts and scats. Of the species examined, two (striped and Atlantic white-sided dolphin) can be considered offshore species or species inhabiting neritic waters, …
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Estate Management Practices on the Wentworth-Fitzwilliam Core Estates of Ireland and Yorkshire: A comparative study, 1815-65
… presence of a resident landlord, the family’s Irish holding in county Wicklow enjoyed a far greater degree of autonomy devolving power to a resident land agent. This comparative study aims to examine the different management strategies introduced in each location and how decisions made impacted …
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