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Coral reefs
Coral reefs are structures formed from the calcium carbonate secretions of corals. They are colonies of tiny animals in marine areas containing few nutrients.
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Coral reefs
Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project (MCRMP)
Natural environment; Coral reefs
The Institute for Marine Remote Sensing (imars) at the University of South Florida is funded by the Oceanography Program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide an ...
chromatophore
Natural environment; Coral reefs
A cell whose cytoplasm contains pigment granules that can be rapidly concentrated or dispersed, producing an overall effect of altering the color, color pattern or tone of the whole or part of an ...
yolk-sac larva
Natural environment; Coral reefs
A fish larva which has already hatched from the egg but has not yet started feeding and still absorbs the yolk in the ventrally-attached yolk sac.
raster map
Natural environment; Coral reefs
A map or chart encoded in the form of a regular array of cells.
strobila
Natural environment; Coral reefs
A stage in the jellyfish life cycle. Free-swimming scyphozoan (true jellyfishes) medusae produce gametes which give rise to small polyps called scyphistomae. After a period of growth, a scyphistoma ...
lagoon
Natural environment; Coral reefs
A warm, shallow, quiet waterway separated from the open sea by a reef crest.
