- Industry: Government
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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The Coral Reef Ecosystem Integrated Observing System (CREIOS) will provide a diverse suite of long-term ecological and environmental observations and information products over a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. The CREIOS goal is to understand the condition and health of, and processes influencing, coral reef ecosystems, to assist stakeholders in making improved and timely ecosystem-based management decisions to conserve coral reefs.
Industry:Natural environment
A colourless chromatophore which contains purines, mostly guanine in the form of large, nonmotile crystals.
Industry:Natural environment
A geographical variant of a community, or a variant which includes a conspicuous or abundant species not present in the main community; all of the characteristics of a particular rock unit. The characteristics of the rock unit come from the depositional e.
Industry:Natural environment
A mode of reproduction unique to polychaete worms in which the worm undergoes a partial or entire transition into a pelagic, sexually reproductive form, known as an epitoke. In many cases, epitoky involves loss or degeneration of digestive structures and enhancement of swimming, sensory, and reproductive structures. The epitoke is a considered a delicacy in some islands of the South Pacific.
Industry:Natural environment
A rise in the sea surface on an open coast, often resulting from a hurricane.
Industry:Natural environment
An agent that causes a permanent genetic change in a cell other than that which occurs during normal genetic recombination.
Industry:Natural environment
In corallites, one of many rods or axial structures composed of fibrous tufts (sclerodermites), which form teeth along the upper septal margin .
Industry:Natural environment
Pertains to those aspects of a parapatric speciation event whereby the daughter species are minimally isolated geographically.
Industry:Natural environment
