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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Associated with sea-water environment seaward of the shelf-slope break.
Industry:Natural environment
Genes encoding protein complexes that participate in defence mechanisms to environmental chemical stressors; also called "chemical defensome".
Industry:Natural environment
In taxonomy, a named taxon, objectively defined by its type taxon. Thus the nominal family Chaetodontidae is always the one to which its nominal type genus, Chaetodon, belongs.
Industry:Natural environment
One of the buds of a hydroid, destined to develop into a gonophore or medusa. Medusa buds are released from the gonangium through a central opening, the gonopore.
Industry:Natural environment
The density-driven convective circulation system of the world's oceans. Warm Atlantic water moves northward along the axis of the Gulf Stream, and evaporation increases water density while releasing heat to the colder atmosphere in the North Atlantic. Once significantly dense, the water sinks into the deep ocean, forming a downward limb of a giant conveyor-like circulation that extends around the world's oceans.
Industry:Natural environment
A breathing gas mixture of helium, oxygen, and nitrogen. By using trimix, it is possible for divers to descend to hundreds of feet without suffering from toxic partial pressures of oxygen (which increases with depth), and also reduces the effect of nitrogen narcosis.
Industry:Natural environment
A downward current of surface water in the ocean, usually caused by differences in the density of seawater.
Industry:Natural environment
A species defined on the characters of the type specimen.
Industry:Natural environment
A type of wetland that is dominated by woody vegetation. When it does not, it is usually termed a marsh. Swamps may be fresh or salt water and tidal or non-tidal.
Industry:Natural environment
