Coral reef restoration, the Glossary
Coral reef restoration strategies use natural and anthropogenic processes to restore damaged coral reefs.[1]
Table of Contents
26 relations: Artificial reef, Biorock, Bottom trawling, Budding, Citizen science, Coral reef, Ecosystem service, Eutrophication, Fossil fuel, Gamete, Genotype, Great Barrier Reef, Greenhouse gas, Marine pollution, Marine protected area, Mutualism (biology), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Ocean acidification, Photosynthesis, Plant nursery, Polyp (zoology), Scleractinia, Selective breeding, Spawn (biology), Staghorn coral, Zooxanthellae.
Artificial reef
An artificial reef (AR) is a human-created freshwater or marine benthic structure.
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Biorock
Biorock (also seacrete) is a cement-like engineering material formed when a small electric current is passed between underwater metal electrodes placed in seawater causing dissolved minerals to accrete onto the cathode to form a thick layer of limestone.
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Bottom trawling
Bottom trawling is trawling (towing a trawl, which is a fishing net) along the seafloor.
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Budding
Budding or blastogenesis is a type of asexual reproduction in which a new organism develops from an outgrowth or bud due to cell division at one particular site.
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Citizen science
Citizen science (similar to community science, crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic science, participatory monitoring, or volunteer monitoring) is research conducted with participation from the general public, or amateur/nonprofessional researchers or participants for science, social science and many other disciplines.
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Coral reef
A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals. Coral reef restoration and coral reef are coral reefs.
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Ecosystem service
Ecosystem services are the various benefits that humans derive from healthy ecosystems. Coral reef restoration and ecosystem service are ecological restoration.
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Eutrophication
Eutrophication is a general term describing a process in which nutrients accumulate in a body of water, resulting in an increased growth of microorganisms that may deplete the oxygen of water.
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Fossil fuel
A fossil fuel is a carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material such as coal, oil, and natural gas, formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the remains of prehistoric organisms (animals, plants and planktons), a process that occurs within geological formations.
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Gamete
A gamete (ultimately) is a haploid cell that fuses with another haploid cell during fertilization in organisms that reproduce sexually.
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Genotype
The genotype of an organism is its complete set of genetic material.
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Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately.
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Greenhouse gas
Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the gases in the atmosphere that raise the surface temperature of planets such as the Earth.
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Marine pollution
Marine pollution occurs when substances used or spread by humans, such as industrial, agricultural and residential waste, particles, noise, excess carbon dioxide or invasive organisms enter the ocean and cause harmful effects there.
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Marine protected area
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are protected areas of the world's seas, oceans, estuaries or in the US, the Great Lakes.
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Mutualism (biology)
Mutualism describes the ecological interaction between two or more species where each species has a net benefit.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
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Ocean acidification
Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's ocean.
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Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabolism.
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Plant nursery
A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to a desired size.
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Polyp (zoology)
A polyp in zoology is one of two forms found in the phylum Cnidaria, the other being the medusa.
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Scleractinia
Scleractinia, also called stony corals or hard corals, are marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria that build themselves a hard skeleton.
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Selective breeding
Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.
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Spawn (biology)
Spawn is the eggs and sperm released or deposited into water by aquatic animals.
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Staghorn coral
The Staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) is a branching, stony coral, within the Order Scleractinia.
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Zooxanthellae
Zooxanthellae (zooxanthella) is a colloquial term for single-celled dinoflagellates that are able to live in symbiosis with diverse marine invertebrates including demosponges, corals, jellyfish, and nudibranchs.
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