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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A mutualistic relationship where one species cannot survive without the presence of the other.
Industry:Natural environment
An anthozoan polyp which develops from a sexually produced larva and gives rise to a colony by asexual budding.
Industry:Natural environment
Animals use several ways to communicate with one another. These include the visual, auditory, and tactile senses, as well as certain chemicals involved in taste and smell. Other possibilities are magnetic fields and electrical discharges. Communication among animals helps them to recognise each other, cause reproductive behavior, and to organise social behaviors.
Industry:Natural environment
Densely packed algae, usually filamentous, which rise less than one centimetre above the substratum upon which they are growing. A synonym of turf algae.
Industry:Natural environment
Male parthenogenesis, i.e., the development of a haploid embryo from a male nucleus. The maternal nucleus is eliminated or inactivated subsequent to fertilisation of the ovum, and the haploid individual (referred to as androgenetic) contains the genome of the male gamete only in its cells.
Industry:Natural environment
Radiation that carries enough energy to excite an atom or molecule, but not enough energy to remove an electron from the atom or molecule. This type of radiation does not cause damage to cells and tissues; examples include radio waves, microwaves, infrared light, and ordinary light.
Industry:Natural environment
The area of a barrier reef or atoll from the reef crest. It includes spurs, grooves, terraces, reef walls, etc.
Industry:Natural environment
The label (or designation) of a particular species in the binomial system of nomenclature . For example, "palmata" is the specific epithet of the elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata .
Industry:Natural environment
The reproductive condition in which individuals reproduce several times during their lifetime.
Industry:Natural environment
