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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The shallowest part of a reef crest landward of the palmata zone. It consists of broken pieces of coral washed back by storms.
Industry:Natural environment
Visible representation of objects and (or) phenomena as sensed or detected by cameras, infrared and multispectral scanners, radar, and photometers.
Industry:Natural environment
A belt worn during scuba diving that contains lead weights, either solid masses or as shot in pouches. The weight belt allows a diver to descend in the water column against the forces buoying the diver upwards.
Industry:Natural environment
A discarded material which contains substances known to be toxic, mutagenic, carcinogenic, or teratogenic to humans or other life; ignitable, corrosive, explosive, or highly reactive alone or with other materials.
Industry:Natural environment
A legally established land or water area under either public or private ownership that is regulated and managed to achieve specific conservation objectives.
Industry:Natural environment
A phagocytic cell found circulating in the body cavity of coelomates, particularly annelids and mollusks, or crawling by amoeboid movement through the interstitial spaces of sponges; an amoeboid cell in sponges that transports nutrients and is found in the matrix between the epidermal and collar cells; any cell having the shape or properties of an amoeba.
Industry:Natural environment
A small, fingerlike or hairlike projection of the small intestinal wall that contains connective tissue, blood vessels, and a lymphatic vessel, and which functions in the absorption of nutrients.
Industry:Natural environment
A type of asexual reproduction common in branching corals. Branches break off from the parental colony to establish other colonies nearby.
Industry:Natural environment
An environmental remnant of the past (pollen grains, tree rings, lake sediments, pack rat middens, ice cores, coral skeletons) used to assist researchers in deciphering past climatic conditions.
Industry:Natural environment
