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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A particular form of amensalism found in plants. In this interaction, one species produces and releases chemical substances that inhibit the growth of another species.
Industry:Natural environment
A toxin produced by cyanobacteria that has been implicated in human and animal illness and death. Cyanotoxins can accumulate in animals such as fishes and shellfish, and cause illnesses such as shellfish poisoning.
Industry:Natural environment
An ecological succession beginning in a habitat with abundant water, typically on the submerged sediments of a standing water body (e.g. Lake or lagoon), and ending on dry land.
Industry:Natural environment
Any part of an organism which is concerned with the causation of physical injury to another, such as teeth, spines, darts, rasping organs, beak bites, etc.
Industry:Natural environment
Either of the two times of the year when the sun is the greatest distance from the celestial equator, occurring about June 22 and December 22.
Industry:Natural environment
In sponges, a pinacocyte lining the incurrent and excurrent canals.
Industry:Natural environment
Nutritive material of an ovum, consisting of protein and fat, stored for the nutrition of an embryo or early larva.
Industry:Natural environment
Relating to the appendages, as opposed to axial, which refers to the trunk and head of an organism.
Industry:Natural environment
The chlorophyll present in brown algae, diatoms, and flagellates.
Industry:Natural environment
