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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
In conservation biology, species with large area requirements. Conservation of these species should automatically conserve a host of other species.
Industry:Natural environment
Pertains to the ranges of species that are contiguous but not overlapping; adjacent but non-overlapping distributions.
Industry:Natural environment
The ability to maintain a relatively constant internal environment.
Industry:Natural environment
The gastrovascular (digestive) cavity of a cnidarian or ctenophore.
Industry:Natural environment
The geographical area inhabited by a species or other group; may be continuous or discontinuous.
Industry:Natural environment
Time in which reporting of events or recording of events is simultaneous with the event.
Industry:Natural environment
The CLEO project is designed to provide easy access to grey literature and pre-1990's literature on the coral reef environments near the Coral Reef Early Warning System (CREWS) monitoring stations to support education, research and management objectives. The Education modules leverage techniques developed at NOAA/AOML in the Explorer of the Seas, Coral Health and Monitoring and CREWS programmes under which knowledge transfer of oceanographic instrumentaion and coral reef processes have been developed. Education modules for middle school students engage the students in oceanographic instrumentation, classroom experiments and use of data, and the live Coral Cam observations.
Industry:Natural environment
A colour pattern that breaks up the outline of an organism.
Industry:Natural environment
A Geographic Information System (GIS) methodology to identify the distribution of biodiversity over large spatial areas. It was developed in 1988 by the U.S. Geological Survey in an effort to ensure that regions rich in species diversity are conserved with the hope that this will eliminate the need to list species as threatened or endangered in the future. The gap analysis approach uses maps of vegetation and predicted animal distributions to locate centres of species richness outside areas currently managed for biodiversity protection. These are considered the "gaps" of gap analysis. Thus far, its use primarily has been in the terrestrial sphere.
Industry:Natural environment
A rise above normal water level on the open coast due to the action of wind stress on the water surface.
Industry:Natural environment
