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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The series of communities that follow one another in a natural succession, as in the change from a bare field to a mature forest.
Industry:Natural environment
Used to describe organisms that migrate only within the ocean, usually from spawning grounds to feeding grounds.
Industry:Natural environment
A dark spot, blemish; the small, highly sensitive area (of the human eye) which is located in the center of the retina. It is responsible for near and fine detail vision .
Industry:Natural environment
A land-locked brackish body of water that displays tidal fluctuations but has no surface connection to the sea. Anchialine pools are restricted to highly porous substrates, such as recently solidified molten rock or limestone adjacent to the sea.
Industry:Natural environment
A number without a decimal (0, 1, 25, 173, 1032, etc.). Integer values can be less than, equal to, or greater than zero.
Industry:Natural environment
A skeleton composed of the calcite form of calcium carbonate.
Industry:Natural environment
A thread-like part of a coral polyp's or anemone's digestive system and employed as defensive or aggressive structures when extruded.
Industry:Natural environment
An assemblage of photographs, each of which shows part of a region, and put together in such a way that each point in the region appears once and only once in the assemblage, and scale variation is minimized.
Industry:Natural environment
Any of large web-footed birds belonging to the family Diomedeidae, chiefly distributed throughout the oceans of the southern hemisphere. Albatrosses have a hooked beak and long, narrow wings.
Industry:Natural environment
Diving without the assistance of any breathing apparatus, such as scuba.
Industry:Natural environment
