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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
An organism that feeds by capturing particles suspended in the water column. A synonym of filter feeder.
Industry:Natural environment
Coastal waters and adjacent lands that exert a measurable influence on the uses of the oceans and their living and nonliving resources.
Industry:Natural environment
In animal behavior, visual messages or body language, used by animals primarily to communicate anger, fear, and other basic emotions. Displays are strong indications of an animal's emotional state.
Industry:Natural environment
Instinctive behavior, triggered by internal chemico-physiological factors that builds to a certain level, and allows the behavior to take place. This build up is called the specific action potential. It is responsible for an animal performing one behavior in preference to other behaviors.
Industry:Natural environment
Temperature, precipitation, and wind speed and direction that occur on a daily basis.
Industry:Natural environment
The first (parental) zooid of a bryozoan colony, formed from a settled and metamorphosed larva. It is often smaller and morphologically distinct from the zooids that bud from it.
Industry:Natural environment
The process whereby an entire ecosystem is brought back to healthy condition .
Industry:Natural environment
The widespread outbreak of a disease, or a large number of cases of a disease in a single community or relatively small area.
Industry:Natural environment
