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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The social dysfunction and failure to mate successfully when population density falls below a certain threshold.
Industry:Natural environment
A chisel-shaped tooth used for cutting. Typically, it wider than it is thick.
Industry:Natural environment
A form of tissue degeneration in which the tissues develop a homogeneous and glassy appearance.
Industry:Natural environment
A measurement of storage space equal to a thousand megabytes.
Industry:Natural environment
A structure that fills with sound and acts as a natural amplifier.
Industry:Natural environment
Activities undertaken by humans to repair ecological damage, such as establishing vegetation on degraded habitat, increasing the populations of endangered species, and decreasing the threatened area of an ecosystem.
Industry:Natural environment
An isolated flat-topped coral reef which reaches the surface but lacks a lagoon.
Industry:Natural environment
Cell eating. A process in which phagocytes engulf and digest microorganisms and cellular debris; an important defence against infection .
Industry:Natural environment
High-energy radiation capable of producing ionisation in substances through which it passes, i.e., radiation that has enough energy to eject electrons from electrically neutral atoms, leaving behind charged atoms or ions; examples are alpha particles (helium nuclei), beta particles (electrons), neutrons, and gamma rays (high frequency electromagnetic waves, x-rays) .
Industry:Natural environment
