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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
An allopolyploid; an organism produced by hybridization of two species followed by chromosome doubling.
Industry:Natural environment
An organism which transmits infective organisms from one host to another.
Industry:Natural environment
Coral polyps can be solitary or colonial. Solitary forms remain as a single individual polyp and one corallite.
Industry:Natural environment
In ecological terms, a dynamic equilibrium among the physical and biological factors in an ecosystem or a community; relative homeostasis; unchanging with time. This can be a static state, where nothing changes or a steady state where resource flows occur.
Industry:Natural environment
The accumulation and amplification of chemical substances at each succeeding trophic level.
Industry:Natural environment
The growing of aquatic organisms in controlled environments for any commercial, recreational, or public purpose; sector of fisheries that includes the rearing or raising under controlled conditions of aquatic products such as fishes, mollusks, crustaceans, sea weeds and other aquatic resources in sea, lakes and rivers. Examples are fish ponds, fish pens, and fish cages. Aquaculture is widespread, and in tropical countries has been a significant source of pollution in coastal waters and also contributes to the destruction of mangrove forests.
Industry:Natural environment
The rate of growth and the age structure of populations, and the processes that determine these properties.
Industry:Natural environment
The error of not rejecting the null hypothesis when it is false.
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