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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A large polynucleotide (about 1500 bases) which functions as a part of the small subunit of the ribosome of prokaryotes and from whose sequence evolutionary information can be obtained; the eukaryotic counterpart is 18S rrna.
Industry:Natural environment
A large region of volcanic islands which includes New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Maluku, the Torres Strait Islands, and New Caledonia. The name "Melanesia" means "black islands", referring to the dark-complexioned inhabitants these islands.
Industry:Natural environment
A large, multi-national collaborative program, jointly managed by NOAA and the Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF), intended to maintain and provide tissue samples for research into the ecological and evolutionary processes driving the ongoing invasion of lionfish (Pterois spp.) In the Caribbean and western Atlantic .
Industry:Natural environment
A large-scale atmospheric and hydrospheric fluctuation centred in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. It exhibits a nearly annual pressure anomaly, alternatively high over the Indian Ocean and high over the South Pacific. Its period is slightly variable, averaging 2.33 years. The variation in pressure is accompanied by variations in wind strengths, ocean currents, sea-surface temperatures, and precipitation in the surrounding areas. El Niño occurrences are associated with the phenomenon.
Industry:Natural environment
A limestone terrain characterised by sinks, caverns, abrupt ridges, protuberant rocks and drainage characteristics due to greater solubility of limestone in natural waters than is common. The term is derived from the geographical name of part of Slovenia.
Industry:Natural environment
A major perturbation of tropical convection which moves and completes a global circuit every 30 to 60 days. It is a dominant cause of intraseasonal variability in tropical equatorial regions.
Industry:Natural environment
A male or female that is genetically determined at birth or hatching and is not the result of sex change.
Industry:Natural environment
A map that composites all of the average monthly hotspot (see hotspot) images for a given year.
Industry:Natural environment
A measure of the chemically oxidizable material in water which provides an approximation of the amount of organic and reducing material present. The determined value may correlate with biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) or with carbonaceous organic pollution from sewage or industrial wastes.
Industry:Natural environment
A method for differential staining of bacteria; Gram-positive cells stain purple-black and Gram-negative cells stain pink; useful in bacterial taxonomy and identification.
Industry:Natural environment
