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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The spread of genes of one species to another species through hybridization. The hybrids are able to breed back into one of the parental populations. This allows the reintroduction of alleles that may have been lost during the speciation process.
Industry:Natural environment
Wreckage or discarded material, e.g. Garbage, found floating on the surface of the ocean or washed up on the beach.
Industry:Natural environment
A dense layer of algae, usually filamentous, which blankets the bottom in a shallow water environment. An algal mat can also be a ‘mat’ of microscopic species, usually diatoms, covering soft bottoms, or a mat of floating algae.
Industry:Natural environment
A particular form of amensalism found in plants. In this interaction, one species produces and releases chemical substances that inhibit the growth of another species.
Industry:Natural environment
A toxin produced by cyanobacteria that has been implicated in human and animal illness and death. Cyanotoxins can accumulate in animals such as fishes and shellfish, and cause illnesses such as shellfish poisoning.
Industry:Natural environment
An ecological succession beginning in a habitat with abundant water, typically on the submerged sediments of a standing water body (e.g. Lake or lagoon), and ending on dry land.
Industry:Natural environment
Any part of an organism which is concerned with the causation of physical injury to another, such as teeth, spines, darts, rasping organs, beak bites, etc.
Industry:Natural environment
Either of the two times of the year when the sun is the greatest distance from the celestial equator, occurring about June 22 and December 22.
Industry:Natural environment
