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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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Cryptobiosis
Natural environment; Coral reefs
A suspension of life processes when conditions become unfavorable. In these resistant states some animals, such nematodes, rotifers and tardigrades, as can survive extreme drying, heat, or cold, and ...
Domoic acid
Natural environment; Coral reefs
An acidic cyanotoxin found associated with certain diatom blooms. Domoic acid can bioaccumulate in marine organisms that feed on the phytoplankton, such as shellfish and some fishes. In mammals, ...
Generalist
Natural environment; Coral reefs
An organism which can survive under a wide variety of environmental conditions, and does not specialise to exist under any particular set of circumstances.
Holoeuryhaline
Natural environment; Coral reefs
Pertains to organisms that inhabit fresh, brackish and marine waters.
Precision
Natural environment; Coral reefs
The ability of an instrument to measure a variable and to repeatedly obtain the same result .
Anthocodium
Natural environment; Coral reefs
The free oral end of an anthozoan polyp, the basal portion of which is united with other zooids in a common mass. It is a site of bioluminescence in some anthozoans.
Benign introduction
Natural environment; Coral reefs
The purposeful introduction of members of a species into an appropriate habitat, foreign to the "home" habitat or area, for the purposes of conservation of that species.
