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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The repeated surveying of organisms, populations, communities, or environmental parameters over time to help us understand a variety of natural processes.
Industry:Natural environment
Two or more computers connected together so that they can share resources. Two or more networks connected together is an internet.
Industry:Natural environment
A coral bleaching hypothesis wherein under changing environmental conditions, the loss of one or more kinds of zooxanthellae is rapidly followed by the formation of new symbiotic cnidarian-algal relationships with different zooxanthellae that are more suited to the new conditions in the host's habitat. Fundamental assumptions of the ABH include (1) different types of zooxanthellae respond differently to environmental conditions, specifically temperature, and (2) bleached adults can secondarily acquire zooxanthellae from the environment.
Industry:Natural environment
A mutualistic relationship where one species cannot survive without the presence of the other.
Industry:Natural environment
An anthozoan polyp which develops from a sexually produced larva and gives rise to a colony by asexual budding.
Industry:Natural environment
Animals use several ways to communicate with one another. These include the visual, auditory, and tactile senses, as well as certain chemicals involved in taste and smell. Other possibilities are magnetic fields and electrical discharges. Communication among animals helps them to recognize each other, cause reproductive behavior, and to organize social behaviors.
Industry:Natural environment
Densely packed algae, usually filamentous, which rise less than one centimeter above the substratum upon which they are growing. A synonym of turf algae.
Industry:Natural environment
