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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
In fishes having the swim bladder connected by a tube to the gut.
Industry:Natural environment
Pregnant; heavy with young; full of ripe eggs or distended by such fullness.
Industry:Natural environment
The analysis of a phenomenon that uses environmental variables represented by numbers or ranges, often accomplished by numerical modelling or statistical analysis.
Industry:Natural environment
The innermost layer of the Earth, consisting primarily of pure metals such as iron and nickel. The core is the most dense layer of the Earth, and is divided into the outer core, which is believed to be liquid, and the inner core, which is believed to be solid.
Industry:Natural environment
The regular recurrence, in cycles of about 24 hours, of biological processes or activities.
Industry:Natural environment
Toward the source or upper part of a stream or current; against the current.
Industry:Natural environment
A concept of species in which a species is a set of organisms that are phenotypically similar to one another.
Industry:Natural environment
A group of individuals of the same species living in the same area at the same time and sharing a common gene pool; a group of potentially interbreeding organisms in a geographic area.
Industry:Natural environment
A movement of air or water caused by changes in density or thermal gradients.
Industry:Natural environment
