- Industry: Government
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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A document used by an organisation to align its organisation and budget structure with organisational priorities, missions, and objectives. A strategic plan should include a mission statement, a description of the agency's long-term goals and objectives, and strategies or means the agency plans to use to achieve these general goals and objectives.
Industry:Natural environment
A liquid colloidal dispersion; a cytoplasmic phase (the other phase is a gel).
Industry:Natural environment
A polymer of adenylic acid that is sometimes attached to eukaryotic mrna (messenger RNA) and stabilises the molecule before transport from the nucleus into the cytoplasm.
Industry:Natural environment
A specialised polyp found in colonial soft corals, such as sea pens and sea pansies, which functions as as intake for water, which circulates within the colony and helps keep it upright.
Industry:Natural environment
An imaginary line running from north to south through Greenwich, England, used as the reference point for longitude.
Industry:Natural environment
The ratio of reef surface contour to linear distance. As part of a monitoring programme employing a chain transect protocol, the spatial index provides a way to quantify changes in the topographical complexity of the reef.
Industry:Natural environment
In taxonomy, a name placed within parentheses (after a generic name to denote a subgenus; after a genus-group name to denote an aggregate of species, or after a specific name to denote an aggregate of subspecies. Names used in this way are not counted as one of the names in a binomen or trinomen.
Industry:Natural environment
One of several small non-retractable fins located dorsally and ventrally between the second dorsal and anal fins and the caudal fin of scombroids (mackerals, tuna) and some other fishes, e.g., sauries and snake mackerals. Finlets appear to have a hydrodynamic function in fishes that have been studied for this character.
Industry:Natural environment
The deflection of acoustic radiation in a scattering process through an angle greater than 90 degrees. Backscatter is the term commonly used to describe the return of energy from the seabed to the receiver in an active sonar.
Industry:Natural environment
