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Disturbance

Biology; Marine biology

A rapid change in an environment that greatly alters a previously persistent biological community.

Grazer

Biology; Marine biology

A predator that consumes organisms far smaller than itself (e.g., copepods graze on diatoms).

Bloom

Biology; Marine biology

A population burst of phytoplankton that remains within a defined part of the water column.

Hypothesis

Biology; Marine biology

A refutable statement about one or a series of phenomena.

Moderately stratified estuary

Biology; Marine biology

An estuary in which seaward flow of surface low-salinity water and moderate vertical mixing result in a modest vertical salinity gradient.

An autotrophic organism that makes complex organic compounds from inorganic compounds through the process of photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. For example, phytoplankton synthesise sugars (organic ...

Global positioning system (GPS)

Biology; Marine biology

An electronic device that uses positioning signals from satellites in order to locate precisely latitutude and longitude. Now used nearly exclusively for locating ship sampling stations at sea, but ...