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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
An abnormal condition in which a normal opening or tube in the body is closed or absent.
Industry:Natural environment
An organism that inhabits habitats with extremely cold temperatures ranging from -15°C -+10°C; also known as "Psychrophiles".
Industry:Natural environment
In biogeography, an environment that prevents or impedes the dispersal of a species from one location to another.
Industry:Natural environment
Pertains to an organism that inhabits the empty living space or shell of another organism.
Industry:Natural environment
That part of the ocean that extends outward from the continental shelf.
Industry:Natural environment
The flow of an element through the living tissue and physical environment of an ecosystem, e.g., the carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus cycles.
Industry:Natural environment
The production of living material per unit area (or volume) per unit time by herbivores. It is usually expressed as grammes carbon per metre square per year.
Industry:Natural environment
A coastal cave formed in limestone or volcanic rock that is flooded with seawater. These marine or brackish water bodies lack surface connexions to the sea. They include the longest submerged caves on Earth.
Industry:Natural environment
A gene that controls the activity of other genes involved in the development of a body plan.
Industry:Natural environment
