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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A pollution source without a single point of origin, or not introduced into a receiving stream from a specific outlet. It occurs when rainfall, snowmelt, or irrigation runs over land or through the ground, picks up pollutants, and deposits them into rivers, lakes, and coastal waters or introduces them into ground water. Common nonpoint sources are agriculture, forestry, mining, construction, dams, channels, land disposal, saltwater intrusion, and city streets.
Industry:Natural environment
A specialized microvillus that superficially resembles a cilium and projects from the surface of certain cells, such as the auditory hair cells .
Industry:Natural environment
A type of skeleton found in many soft-bodied invertebrates which consists of a turgid column of liquid within one of the body spaces that provides support or rigidity to the organism or to one of its parts. Hydrostatic skeletons are found in echinoderms (starfish, sea urchins), annelids (worms), nematodes (roundworms), and a number of other wormlike invertebrate phyla.
Industry:Natural environment
An eye-like spot, usually surrounded with a ring of a lighter color, e.g. The ocellus toward the caudal peduncle of some butterflyfish. It may function to deflect attacks to the eyes in agonistic encounters.Ocelli are also present in other animal groups, especially insects.
Industry:Natural environment
Formaldehyde gas dissolved in water. Formalin is used as a fixative and preservative in some collections of biological specimens.
Industry:Natural environment
In taxonomy, a naked name, i.e., a name that, if published before 1931, was not accompanied by a description, definition, or indication, or if published after 1930, is not accompanied by a statement that purports to give characters differentiating the taxon; or is not accompanied by a definite bibliographic reference to such a statement; or is not proposed expressly as a replacement for a pre-existing available name. A nomen nudum is not an available name.
Industry:Natural environment
One of several columns of mesenchyme found in the neck region of the developing vertebrate embryo. In lower vertebrates, blood vessels formed here become part of the gills; in higher vertebrates derivatives include portions of the jaw and middle ear; also known as branchial arches, gill arches, or visceral arches.
Industry:Natural environment
Search behavior in which a herbivore or predator moves around its environment looking for food.
Industry:Natural environment
