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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
In ecology, the total biomass of all organisms at each trophic level in a food chain; typically biomass declines with successively higher trophic levels.
Industry:Natural environment
The act, process, or means by which data are managed. This includes the planning, collection, compilation, archival, safe-guarding, listing, organization, extraction, retrieval, manipulation, and dissemination of data.
Industry:Natural environment
The Hawaiian name for the red alga, Asparagopsis taxiformis, an edible species that is no longer common in the Main Hawaiian Islands, but is relatively abundant the shallow waters of some of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Industry:Natural environment
The reactive part of a macromolecule that directly participates in its specific combination with another molecule.
Industry:Natural environment
To mark substances in a way that they can easily be identified. In an organism, substances may be labelled using stable isotopes or harmless radioactive components so that they can be traced, analysed or measured.
Industry:Natural environment
The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary was designated as a national marine sanctuary in November of 1990. The Florida reef tract is the most extensive living coral reef system in North American waters and the third largest barrier reef system in the world. The sanctuary extends 220 miles in a northeast to southwest arc between the southern tip of Key Biscayne, south of Miami, to beyond, but not including the Dry Tortugas Islands.
Industry:Natural environment
A complete infectious viral particle, existing outside of a host cell, with nucleic acid and capsid, and in some types, an outer lipid envelope .
Industry:Natural environment
A graphical, tabular, or mathematical summary of a set of data showing the frequency (or number) of items in each of several non-overlapping classes .
Industry:Natural environment
A molecule, such as a hormone or growth factor, that binds to a specific site on a receptor protein.
Industry:Natural environment
A sac that stores spermatozoa (sperm cells) prior to fertilisation of an egg.
Industry:Natural environment
