Coral reefs

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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Coral reefs

Biocoenosis

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A community or natural assemblage of organisms. The term often is used as an alternative to ecosystem, but strictly it is the fauna/flora association excluding physical aspects of the environment.

Correlogram

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A graph illustrating the auto-correlations between members of a time series (vertical axis) for different separations in time (horizontal axis).

Enantiomer

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A molecule that is not superimposable on its mirror image; an enantiomorph is either one of a pair of compounds that are mirror images on each other but are not identical.

Limu kohu

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The Hawaiian name for the red alga, Asparagopsis taxiformis, an edible species that is no longer common in the Main Hawaiian Islands, but is relatively abundant the shallow waters of some of the ...

Binding site

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The reactive part of a macromolecule that directly participates in its specific combination with another molecule.

Labelled

Natural environment; Coral reefs

To mark substances in a way that they can easily be identified. In an organism, substances may be labelled using stable isotopes or harmless radioactive components so that they can be traced, ...

Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary was designated as a national marine sanctuary in November of 1990. The Florida reef tract is the most extensive living coral reef system in North American ...