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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
An organism which can survive under a wide variety of environmental conditions, and does not specialize to exist under any particular set of circumstances.
Industry:Natural environment
Competition between individuals of the same species.
Industry:Natural environment
In cnidarians, mesenchyme with dense cellular components.
Industry:Natural environment
Pertains to organisms that inhabit fresh, brackish and marine waters.
Industry:Natural environment
The ability of an instrument to measure a variable and to repeatedly obtain the same result .
Industry:Natural environment
The free oral end of an anthozoan polyp, the basal portion of which is united with other zooids in a common mass. It is a site of bioluminescence in some anthozoans.
Industry:Natural environment
The purposeful introduction of members of a species into an appropriate habitat, foreign to the "home" habitat or area, for the purposes of conservation of that species.
Industry:Natural environment
Three bases in a DNA or RNA sequence which specify a single amino acid.
Industry:Natural environment
The amount of gas that will dissolve in a liquid at a given temperature is almost directly proportional to the partial pressure of that gas.
Industry:Natural environment
A collective term for "breakers"; the wave activity in the area between the shore line and the outermost limit of breakers. In literature, surf usually refers to the breaking waves on shore and on reefs.
Industry:Natural environment