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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A deme forming a more or less isolated local intrabreeding community.
Industry:Natural environment
A large reef of variable shape lacking a lagoon, seaward of a fringing reef and/or a barrier reef, for which the width is more than half its length.
Industry:Natural environment
A particle that carries a positive electrical charge. The cation gets this positive charge from losing negatively charged electrons.
Industry:Natural environment
An ecological community considered together with the non-living factors of its environment as a unit.
Industry:Natural environment
Any organism, population, or species from which some other organism, population, or species is descended.
Industry:Natural environment
Either of the two times during a year when the sun crosses the celestial equator and the length of day and night are equal.
Industry:Natural environment
In sponges, a microscopic pore through which water enters the sponge body.
Industry:Natural environment
