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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A positively or negatively charged atom produced through loss or gain of one or more electrons.
Industry:Natural environment
A species which make up a large proportion of a community in terms of its biomass or numbers of individuals.
Industry:Natural environment
A variable that takes different real values as a result of the outcomes of a random event or experiment;A quantity whose values are random and to which a probability distribution is assigned, such as the possible outcomes of a roll of a dice .
Industry:Natural environment
An infectious particle similar to a virus, but smaller. It consists only of a strand of nucleic acid without the protein coat (capsid) characteristic of a virus.
Industry:Natural environment
In taxonomy, an illegitimate name; a validly published name that must be rejected for the purposes of priority in accordance with the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
Industry:Natural environment
One of the segments of a tapeworm, containing both male and female reproductive organs.
Industry:Natural environment
The diploid stage of red algae which develops after fertilisation of the carpogonium.
Industry:Natural environment
The particulate decomposition or disintegration products of plankton, including dead cells, cell fragments, faecal pellets, shells, and skeletons, and sometimes mineral particles in coastal waters.
Industry:Natural environment
The synchronisation of one biological rhythm to another or to a zeitgeber cycle, e.g. Circadian rhythms are often entrained to the light-dark cycle; also, the process of small organisms being captured in the cooling water of a power plant.
Industry:Natural environment
U.S. satellite used to acquire high-resolution (500-800m) remotely sensed multi-spectral images of the earth's land surface and surrounding coastal regions.
Industry:Natural environment
