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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A long, narrow coral reef, roughly parallel to the shore and separated from it by a lagoon of considerable depth and width. It may lie a great distance from a continental coast. It is often interrupted by passes or channels.
Industry:Natural environment
A population or species that cannot reproduce fast enough to replace themselves. Sink populations or species are present only because immigrants compensate for excess deaths in the area. Eventually, sink species will disappear from isolated areas.
Industry:Natural environment
A species that is particularly at risk because of low or declining numbers, a small range, or for some other reason, but is not threatened or endangered.
Industry:Natural environment
A unit of measurement defined as 4.184 absolute joules or the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of one gram of water from 15 to 16 degrees Celsius (or 1/100th the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water at one atmosphere pressure from 0 degrees C to 100 degrees C). Food calories are actually equal to 1,000 calories (1 food calorie = 1 kilocalorie).
Industry:Natural environment
An individual or group with an interest in the success of an organization in delivering intended results and maintaining the viability of the organization's products and services. Stakeholders influence programs, products, and services.
Industry:Natural environment
Based on experience or observations, as opposed to theory or conjecture.
Industry:Natural environment
Growth in the size of a population in which the rate of growth increases as the size of the population increases; change in a population growth rate that is proportional to the size of the population .
Industry:Natural environment
In taxonomy, a specimen which acts as the name bearer; a nomenclatural type (holotype, syntype, lectotype, neotype).
Industry:Natural environment
One of the long, branching filaments that forms the mycelium of a fungus.
Industry:Natural environment
