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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The areal extent and number and diversity of habitat types and distinct ecological zones within a specified area .
Industry:Natural environment
The large-scale removal of living reef corals and fossilized limestone from shallow reef environments for domestic use as building materials, lime production and aggregate.
Industry:Natural environment
The response by a motile cell to a soluble chemical that involves an increase or decrease in speed, or frequency of movement, or a change in the frequency or magnitude of turning behavior.
Industry:Natural environment
Type of differential growth in which parts of the same organism grow at different rates. For example, in humans, the head and body grow at different rates, resulting in a human adult with completely different proportions from those of an infant.
Industry:Natural environment
A coral colony which has conical corallites with their own walls.
Industry:Natural environment
A group of unrelated fishes with a similar form of reproduction.
Industry:Natural environment
A nearly cylindrical reef with vertical sides; may be up to 200 m diameter and 50 m in height.
Industry:Natural environment
A taxonomically related set of species within a community that have similar ecological functions.
Industry:Natural environment
