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Coral reefs
Coral reefs are structures formed from the calcium carbonate secretions of corals. They are colonies of tiny animals in marine areas containing few nutrients.
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Cadastral survey
Natural environment; Coral reefs
A survey which creates, marks, defines, retraces or reestablishes the boundaries and subdivisions of the public land of the United States. It is derived from the word cadastre, meaning a public ...
Broadcast spawner
Natural environment; Coral reefs
An organism that releases gametes directly into the sea for external fertilization.
Soft coral
Natural environment; Coral reefs
Common name for species of the anthozoan order Alcyonacea of the subclass Octocorallia. In contrast to the hard or stony corals, most soft corals do not possess a massive external skeleton.
Coordinate taxon
Natural environment; Coral reefs
In cladistics, a group within a monophyletic lineage at the same branching level as another. Therefore, it requires equivalent taxonomic rank in the Linnean classification hierarchy.
Resilience
Natural environment; Coral reefs
The ability of a community or ecosystem to recover from disturbances and maintain a desired condition of diversity, integrity, and ecological processes.
Denitrification
Natural environment; Coral reefs
The formation of gaseous nitrogen and/or nitrogen oxides from nitrate or nitrite by denitrifying bacteria during anaerobic respiration.
Linkage
Natural environment; Coral reefs
The proximity of two or more markers (genes, etc.) On a chromosome; the closer together the markers are, the lower the probability that they will be separated during DNA repair or replication ...
