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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Dense concentrations of particulate organic detritus and living organisms whose downward drift appears similar to a snowfall.
Industry:Natural environment
In fishes, teeth located on the bones in the pharynx, which is the posterior part of the oral cavity.
Industry:Natural environment
Made unfit for living organisms by excess addition of organic matter.
Industry:Natural environment
Radar that can measure radial velocity, the instantaneous component of motion parallel to the radar beam (i.e., toward or away from the radar antenna).
Industry:Natural environment
The area drained by a river or body of water; also called "drainage basin".
Industry:Natural environment
The knoblike anterior end of a tapeworm, having suckers and/or hooklets that, in the adult stage, serve as organs of attachment to the host organism.
Industry:Natural environment
The repeated surveying of organisms, populations, communities, or environmental parameters over time to help us understand a variety of natural processes.
Industry:Natural environment
Two or more computers connected together so that they can share resources. Two or more networks connected together is an internet.
Industry:Natural environment
A coral bleaching hypothesis wherein under changing environmental conditions, the loss of one or more kinds of zooxanthellae is rapidly followed by the formation of new symbiotic cnidarian-algal relationships with different zooxanthellae that are more suited to the new conditions in the host's habitat. Fundamental assumptions of the ABH include (1) different types of zooxanthellae respond differently to environmental conditions, specifically temperature, and (2) bleached adults can secondarily acquire zooxanthellae from the environment.
Industry:Natural environment
