23 Terms
Contributors in Marine biology
Marine biology
Species richness
Biology; Marine biology
The number of different species that exist within a given area or community.
Fecundity
Biology; Marine biology
The number of eggs produced per female per unit time (often per spawning season).
Population
Biology; Marine biology
The number of individuals of a particular species that live within a defined area.
Bow riding
Biology; Marine biology
It is an activity carried out by dolphins in which they swim along the crests of waves in seas.
Gillnet
Biology; Marine biology
A net set upright in the water to catch fish by entangling their gills in its mesh.
Food web
Biology; Marine biology
A non-linear network of feeding between organisms that includes many food chains, and hence multiple organisms on each trophic level. For example, both sharks and tuna eat herring, and sharks also ...
Character displacement
Biology; Marine biology
A pattern in which two species with overlapping ecological requirements differ more when they co-occur than when they do not. The difference is usually in a morphological feature related to resource ...
