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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A life history in which individuals reproduce more than once in a lifetime.
Industry:Natural environment
A piece of tissue or an organ transferred from one individual to another individual of the same species.
Industry:Natural environment
A submerged expanse of coral reef, surrounded by deep water, which does not form a part of a barrier or fringing reef.
Industry:Natural environment
A type of colony formation in which the zooids are connected by a common stolon which is in contact with the substrate, as found in ectoproctans (moss animals) .
Industry:Natural environment
An epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world .
Industry:Natural environment
Any species of colorful, oval-shaped, deep-bodied and strongly compressed spiny-rayed fishes in the family Chaetodontidae. They have small mouths with flexible, brush or comb-like teeth. They resemble the closely related angelfishes. They feed on a variety of foodstuffs from zooplankton to tiny crustaceans and mollusks, soft and hard corals, anemones, segmented worms, and other soft and encrusting invertebrates associated with coral reefs. Some species are omnivores that primarily feed on marine algae as well as animals, while others are obligate corallivores.
Industry:Natural environment
In statistics: time-independent variance; the standard error of estimate is the same for all fitted values of the dependent variable; a property of a set of random variables where each variable has the same finite variance.
Industry:Natural environment
