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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The science that deals with atmospheric phenomena, especially weather and weather conditions.
Industry:Natural environment
Unit of electrical charge of one ampere over period of one second.
Industry:Natural environment
A coral that has corallites of uniform height which are adjoined toward their base.
Industry:Natural environment
A highly modified medusa that remains with a floating hydrozoan colony and pulsates for locomotion of the colony.
Industry:Natural environment
A shelf reef that grows close to shore. Some develop around oceanic islands. A synonym of shore reef.
Industry:Natural environment
A term that refers to the spectral dependence of the radiance leaving a water body.
Industry:Natural environment
An area of relatively uniform environmental conditions, occupied by a given plant community and its associated animal community.
Industry:Natural environment
Any fish species in the order Pleuronectiformes, which includes flounders, flukes, dabs, halibuts, plaice, soles, and turbots. All flatfishes have an unusualy compressed body form adapted to life on the bottom. As the bilaterally symmetrical immature forms develop, one eye migrates to either the left or right side, depending upon the species. The body compresses laterally with changes in the skeletal and internal organ systems, and the animal rests on either its left or right side. The side on the bottom is pale, while the other side is strongly pigmented. Some species are able to change their pigmentation to match the appearance of the bottom.
Industry:Natural environment
Descriptive taxonomy concerned primarily with the discovery, description, and naming of species, usually on the basis of morphological characters.
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