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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Larva of a sea cucumber; an early bipennaria larva of a starfish.
Industry:Natural environment
The ability to support and maintain a balanced, integrated, adaptive biological community having a species composition, diversity and functional organization comparable to that of a natural habitat in the region.
Industry:Natural environment
The genetic constitution of an individual or group. In taxonomy, the genotype is the type species of a genus.
Industry:Natural environment
The rapid reorganization of an ecosystem's organizational structure and dynamics from one relatively stable state to another. In the oceans, regimes may last for several decades. Shifts often appear to be associated with changes in climate .
Industry:Natural environment
Tiny single corallites that form immediately after the metamorphosis of planula larvae.
Industry:Natural environment
The Coral Reef Ecosystem Integrated Observing System (CREIOS) will provide a diverse suite of long-term ecological and environmental observations and information products over a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. The CREIOS goal is to understand the condition and health of, and processes influencing, coral reef ecosystems, to assist stakeholders in making improved and timely ecosystem-based management decisions to conserve coral reefs.
Industry:Natural environment
A colorless chromatophore which contains purines, mostly guanine in the form of large, nonmotile crystals.
Industry:Natural environment
A geographical variant of a community, or a variant which includes a conspicuous or abundant species not present in the main community; all of the characteristics of a particular rock unit. The characteristics of the rock unit come from the depositional e.
Industry:Natural environment
A mode of reproduction unique to polychaete worms in which the worm undergoes a partial or entire transition into a pelagic, sexually reproductive form, known as an epitoke. In many cases, epitoky involves loss or degeneration of digestive structures and enhancement of swimming, sensory, and reproductive structures. The epitoke is a considered a delicacy in some islands of the South Pacific.
Industry:Natural environment
