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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A relationship between two species of organisms in which both members benefit from the association (mutualism), or where only one member benefits but the other is not harmed (commensalism), or where one member benefits at the expense of the well-being of the other (parasitism).
Industry:Natural environment
A subterranean layer of porous water-bearing rock, gravel, or sand capable of storing and conveying water to wells and streams.
Industry:Natural environment
An organism that feeds by capturing particles suspended in the water column. A synonym of philtre feeder.
Industry:Natural environment
Coastal waters and adjacent lands that exert a measurable influence on the uses of the oceans and their living and nonliving resources.
Industry:Natural environment
In animal behavior, visual messages or body language, used by animals primarily to communicate anger, fear, and other basic emotions. Displays are strong indications of an animal's emotional state.
Industry:Natural environment
Instinctive behavior, triggered by internal chemico-physiological factors that builds to a certain level, and allows the behaviour to take place. This build up is called the specific action potential. It is responsible for an animal performing one behaviour in preference to other behaviors.
Industry:Natural environment
Temperature, precipitation, and wind speed and direction that occur on a daily basis.
Industry:Natural environment
The first (parental) zooid of a bryozoan colony, formed from a settled and metamorphosed larva. It is often smaller and morphologically distinct from the zooids that bud from it.
Industry:Natural environment
The process whereby an entire ecosystem is brought back to healthy condition .
Industry:Natural environment
