- Industry: Government
- Number of terms: 30456
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A coral disease characterised large rings or patches of bleached, yellow tissue on Caribbean stony corals, although tissue loss is minimal (cm/yr). It affects the star corals, Montastraea annularis and M. Faveolata and is widespread throughout the Caribbean region. No pathogen has been isolated. For more information and illustrations, see: http://www.coral.noaa.gov/coral_disease/yellow_band.shtml.
Industry:Natural environment
A hard plate (sclerite) forming one of the constituents of the dorsal exoskeleton (tergum) of an animal, such as an arthropod.
Industry:Natural environment
A neurological receptor that is located within the organism's body and detects physiological changes, e.g. Ph, temperature, chemicals in blood.
Industry:Natural environment
A temporal pattern of disease occurrence in an animal population in which the disease occurs with a frequency clearly in excess of the expected frequency in that population during a given time interval; an outbreak (epidemic) of disease in an animal population.
Industry:Natural environment
An area in which a majority of the people are not directly dependent on natural resource-based occupations.
Industry:Natural environment
In genetics, one member of a chromosome pair. Homologous chromosomes have corresponding DNA sequences and come from separate parents, i.e., one homolog comes from the maternal parent and the other comes from the paternal parent; in evolution, a characteristic that is similar in different species because it evolved from a common ancestor.
Industry:Natural environment
Minute particulate material moving in water that is composed of both living organisms, such as plankton, and non-living matter such as plant debris and suspended soil particles.
Industry:Natural environment
Refers to a climatic process that re-occurs every decade or once every few decades.
Industry:Natural environment
