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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Industry: Government
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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Changes in gene frequencies resulting from selective pressures being placed upon a population by environmental factors. This results in a greater fitness of the population to its ecological niche.
Industry:Natural environment
Illegal hunting, fishing or trapping .
Industry:Natural environment
In the volume cited (tomus citate).
Industry:Natural environment
Pertaining to swamps or marshy habitats.
Industry:Natural environment
Sudden decline in the number of individuals found in a population because of a scarcity of required environmental resources.
Industry:Natural environment
The process in which a coral polyp, under environmental stress, expels its symbiotic zooxanthellae from its body. The affected coral colony appears whitened.
Industry:Natural environment
The use of telecommunications technology to give the appearance of an individual being present at a location other than the actual location of that individual.
Industry:Natural environment
Passed in 1960, and amended several times, the Sikes Act authorizes the Secretary of Defense to develop cooperative plans for conservation and rehabilitation programs on military reservations and to establish outdoor recreation facilities. The Act also provides for the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to develop cooperative plans for conservation and rehabilitation programs on public lands under their jurisdiction. Some coral reefs are affected by this Act.
Industry:Natural environment
A circle of paliform lobes that surround the columella.
Industry:Natural environment
A framework for establishing acceptable and appropriate resource and social conditions in recreation settings. LAC is an approach to balance recreational use of a "wilderness" area with environmental and resource protection needs.
Industry:Natural environment
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