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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A field of quantitative ecology concerned with the numerical analysis of complex ecological data sets. Numerical ecology makes use of mathematical tools from many disciplines in order to analyse multidimensional (multivariate) data .
Industry:Natural environment
A lowland along a riverbank, lake, and coastline which is subjected to periodic inundation.
Industry:Natural environment
A specific set of physical, biological, and chemical factors immediately surrounding the organism.
Industry:Natural environment
A very fine sand made up of tiny egg-shaped oolites. Oolites form in Baffin Bay (Texas), the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, the waters surrounding the Bahamas, and in Great Salt lake. Oolites are often used in the home aquarium industry because their small grain size .
Industry:Natural environment
An innate behavioural response to a directional stimulus (a stimulus from a particular direction) whereby the organism either moves toward (positive taxis) or away (negative taxis) from the stimulus.
Industry:Natural environment
In taxonomy, any name which has not been printed and circulated to meet the criteria of publication as stated by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
Industry:Natural environment
One of the structural components, or building blocks, of DNA and RNA. A nucleotide consists of a base (one of four nitrogenous bases: adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine) plus a molecule of sugar and one of phosphoric acid.
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