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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Relating to a shoreline ecosystem dominated by mangrove trees, with associated mud flats.
Industry:Natural environment
The chemical combining capacity of an element or ion; the number of electrons that are used by an atom to form a compound. A valence electron is in the outer or next outer shell of an atom.
Industry:Natural environment
The maximum photosynthetic rate per unit of biomass.
Industry:Natural environment
The sharp break in slope at seaward margin or edge of reef flat.
Industry:Natural environment
Water below the level at which all voids in the rock are completely filled with water.
Industry:Natural environment
A biochemical process by which living organisms take up oxygen from the environment and consume organic matter, releasing both carbon dioxide and heat energy.
Industry:Natural environment
A discipline of zoology that is concerned with sounds of biological origin: their mechanisms of production, physical properties, receptors and reception physiology, and the role of the sounds in behavior.
Industry:Natural environment
A phenotype showing non-genetic adaptations associated with the habitat or environment .
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A type of asexual reproduction in which new individuals develop from the parent organism, forming a swelling similar in appearance to a bud, which separates from the parent as it grows; budding is a form of asexual reproduction in corals where a parent corallite forms daughter corallites.
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