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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A statistical technique used to establish the relationship of a dependent variable and one or more independent variables .
Industry:Natural environment
The precipitation of sulfuric acid and other acids as rain. The acids form when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides released during the combustion of fossil fuels combine with water and oxygen in the atmosphere.
Industry:Natural environment
The total diversity and variability of living things and of the systems of which they are a part. This includes the total range of variation in and variability among systems and organisms at the bioregional, ecosystem and habitat levels, at the various organismal levels down to species, populations and individuals and at the level of the population and genes.
Industry:Natural environment
A protein produced by higher animals in response to the presence of a specific antigen.
Industry:Natural environment
A chemical compound used to retard or prevent the growth of fungi.
Industry:Natural environment
Able to exist under more than one set of environmental conditions. For example, a facultative parasite may exist either as a parasite or as a saprotroph (gaining nutrients from dead organic matter).
Industry:Natural environment
An intense tropical cyclone in which winds tend to spiral inward toward a core of low pressure, with maximum surface wind velocities that equal or exceed 33.5 m/sec (75 mph or 65 knots) for several minutes or longer at some point.
Industry:Natural environment
The pressure of the atmosphere at any given altitude or location; it is synonymous with barometric pressure.
Industry:Natural environment
An interdisciplinary field of science concerned with processes of communication and control in biological and artificial systems; the design or discovery and application of principles of regulation and communication.
Industry:Natural environment
