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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
An amino acid that cannot be synthesized by animals and therefore has to be ingested with food.
Industry:Natural environment
An organism whose habitat is on or near the bottom of a stream, lake, or ocean.
Industry:Natural environment
In ecology, the total biomass of all organisms at each trophic level in a food chain; typically biomass declines with successively higher trophic levels.
Industry:Natural environment
The act, process, or means by which data are managed. This includes the planning, collection, compilation, archival, safe-guarding, listing, organization, extraction, retrieval, manipulation, and dissemination of data.
Industry:Natural environment
The Hawaiian name for the red alga, Asparagopsis taxiformis, an edible species that is no longer common in the Main Hawaiian Islands, but is relatively abundant the shallow waters of some of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Industry:Natural environment
The reactive part of a macromolecule that directly participates in its specific combination with another molecule.
Industry:Natural environment
To mark substances in a way that they can easily be identified. In an organism, substances may be labeled using stable isotopes or harmless radioactive components so that they can be traced, analyzed or measured.
Industry:Natural environment