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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A structured file of information or a set of logically related data stored and retrieved using computer-based means.
Industry:Natural environment
An opening between the reproductive system and the outside environment; the genital pore of many invertebrates.
Industry:Natural environment
Changes (variability/trends) in the long-term characteristics of weather; the normal range of climatic variables over a specific climatic period.
Industry:Natural environment
Hypoxic (low-oxygen) areas in the world's oceans, usually in coastal zones, where little marine life is present, mostly because of eutrophication with subsequent algal blooms. Notable dead zones in the United States include the Gulf of Mexico area surrounding the outfall of the Mississippi River, and coastal regions of the Pacific Northwest .
Industry:Natural environment
Pertaining to sound, the average amount of sound power (sound energy per unit time) which is transmitted through a unit area in a specified direction. The magnitude of the intensity is often referred to as the intensity, without specifying the direction from which the sound is travelling.
Industry:Natural environment
Study of the relationships of taxa by the application of numerical similarity values to characters so as to rank into categories based on degree of overall similarity.
Industry:Natural environment
The evolutionary termination of a species caused by the failure to reproduce and the death of all remaining members of the species; the natural failure to adapt to environmental change.
Industry:Natural environment
