- Industry: Government
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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The accumulation and amplification of chemical substances at each succeeding trophic level.
Industry:Natural environment
The growing of aquatic organisms in controlled environments for any commercial, recreational, or public purpose; sector of fisheries that includes the rearing or raising under controlled conditions of aquatic products such as fishes, mollusks, crustaceans, sea weeds and other aquatic resources in sea, lakes and rivers. Examples are fish ponds, fish pens, and fish cages. Aquaculture is widespread, and in tropical countries has been a significant source of pollution in coastal waters and also contributes to the destruction of mangrove forests.
Industry:Natural environment
The rate of growth and the age structure of populations, and the processes that determine these properties.
Industry:Natural environment
The error of not rejecting the null hypothesis when it is false.
Industry:Natural environment
A community of animals and plants occupying a climatically uniform area on a continental scale.
Industry:Natural environment
A granular region of a cell which contains two centrioles and is a center of microtubule organization during the division of the nucleus.
Industry:Natural environment
