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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
That period of tide between a high water and the succeeding low water; falling tide.
Industry:Natural environment
The fluid-filled cavity formed within the mass of cells of the blastula of many animals during the later stages of cleavage.
Industry:Natural environment
The productiveness or potential productiveness of an organism, measured in the number of viable offspring it may produce; the number of eggs an animal produces each reproductive cycle; the potential reproductive capacity of an organism or population.
Industry:Natural environment
SHOALS is a laser-based scanning LIDAR bathymeter which collects high-resolution bathymetric data in shallow, offshore areas. Map products provide a view of sea-floor topography. In areas with coral reefs, this includes not only the top surface of the reef but also associated channels and sand flats.
Industry:Natural environment
A codon whose function is to stop polypeptide assembly .
Industry:Natural environment
A gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene .
Industry:Natural environment
A micro-food chain that works within (or along side) the classical food chain. In the microbial loop the smallest organisms, the heterotrophic bacteria and pico-plankton, use dissolved inorganic material directly as carbon and energy sources. These organi.
Industry:Natural environment
A reproductive cell capable of dividing by meiosis to produce gametes, e.g., a spermatocyte or oocyte.
Industry:Natural environment
A supportive or protective structure or framework of an animal, a plant, or part of an animal or plant. In animals it is an external (exoskeleton) or internal (endoskeleton) support structure, against which the force of muscles acts. Vertebrates have a skeleton of bone or cartilage; arthropods have one made of chitin; corals have one of calcium carbonate: sponges have a mass of spicules; many other invertebrates use a hydrostatic skeleton, which is an incompressible fluid-filled region of their body. In plants, the skeleton may be a rigid protective covering, as in the shell of a diatom, or the vascular system of a vascular plant.
Industry:Natural environment
