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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A species adapted for utilizing variable, unpredictable or transient environments to obtain food.
Industry:Natural environment
A type of threat or reproductive behavior exhibited by many species of fishes, in which two male fish align beside each other, spread their dorsal, anal, and pelvic fins, and intensify the coloration of their bodies. These threats are usually accompanied by tail beats and body quivering.
Industry:Natural environment
An incompletely or ineffectively developed structure which is greatly reduced from the original ancestral form and is no longer functional.
Industry:Natural environment
Associated with sea-water environment seaward of the shelf-slope break.
Industry:Natural environment
Genes encoding protein complexes that participate in defense mechanisms to environmental chemical stressors; also called "chemical defensome".
Industry:Natural environment
In taxonomy, a named taxon, objectively defined by its type taxon. Thus the nominal family Chaetodontidae is always the one to which its nominal type genus, Chaetodon, belongs.
Industry:Natural environment
One of the buds of a hydroid, destined to develop into a gonophore or medusa. Medusa buds are released from the gonangium through a central opening, the gonopore.
Industry:Natural environment
The density-driven convective circulation system of the world's oceans. Warm Atlantic water moves northward along the axis of the Gulf Stream, and evaporation increases water density while releasing heat to the colder atmosphere in the North Atlantic. Once significantly dense, the water sinks into the deep ocean, forming a downward limb of a giant conveyor-like circulation that extends around the world's oceans.
Industry:Natural environment
