Mathematically defined, symmetrical, bellshaped, continuous probability distribution, traditionally assumed to represent random errors. (UNESCO-WMO International Glossary of Hydrology, 2012 https://library.wmo.int/viewer/35589/download?file=wmo_385-2012.pdf&type=pdf&navigator=1)
Artificial sea grass is sea grass made artificially. Can be used as an alternative marine habitat and to protect shorelines from erosion. (AGROVOC Team, adapted from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273198948_Artificial_Seagrass_A_Habitat_for_Marine_Fishes)
The ability of a landscape to sustain desired biodiversity and ecological functions over time in the face of climate change and other anthropogenic and natural stressors. (Erin E Beller and others, Building Ecological Resilience in Highly Modified Landscapes, BioScience, Volume 69, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 80–92, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biy117)
Ascochyta blight of chickpea is caused by the fungal pathogen Ascochyta rabiei (formerly known as Phoma rabiei). (Agriculture Victoria. Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, 2024. Ascochyta blight of chickpea https://agriculture.vic.gov.au/biosecurity/plant-diseases/grain-pulses-and-cereal-diseases/ascochyta-blight-of-chickpea)
Marine genetic resources refer to genetic material of marine plant, marine animal, microbial or other origin containing functional units of heredity, which have an actual or potential value. (UNEP LEO Thesaurus https://leap.unep.org/knowledge/glossary/marine-genetic-resource. (Source: draft based on CBD, Art. 2))
A branch of stratigraphy that determines the relative geologic age of the rocks by using fossils contained in them. (NAL Thesaurus Staff https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/324385)
Taura syndrome (TS) is a virus disease of penaeid shrimp caused by infection with Taura syndrome virus (TSV). The principal host species in which TSV can cause significant disease outbreaks and mortalities are Penaeus vannamei and P. stylirostris. (WOAH https://www.woah.org/fileadmin/Home/eng/Internationa_Standard_Setting/docs/pdf/2.2.04_TAURA.pdf)
A species of insect belonging to the Buprestidae family of the Coleoptera order. The bronze-colored, 5-7 mm long adults cause significant damage by opening increasingly wide tunnels in the leaves of plum, cherry and apricot trees, while the larvae cause significant damage in the branches of weak and neglected trees, young trees and saplings. (Translated from http://www.tubaterim.gov.tr/)
Artificial feeding is defined broadly as placing natural or artificial food into the environment that supplements the food source contained naturally in the home range of a given wild species. Also important in aquaculture for cultured species. (Adapted from Dunkley, L. and Cattet, M.R.L., "A Comprehensive Review of the Ecological and Human Social Effects of Artificial Feeding and Baiting of Wildlife" (2003). Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre:Newsletters & Publications. 21. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/icwdmccwhcnews/21)
Transmissometers are optical instruments that measure the clarity of water by measuring the fraction of light energy lost from a collimated light beam as it passes along a known pathlength (https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-387782-6.00001-6 Richard E. Thomson, William J. Emery,
Chapter 1 - Data Acquisition and Recording,
Editor(s): Richard E. Thomson, William J. Emery,
Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography (Third Edition),
Elsevier, 2014)
Biotic factors are all of the living things in an ecosystem, such as plants and animals. These living things interact with one another in many ways. (Yale Peabody Museum)
A document is a written, drawn, presented, or memorialized representation of thought, often the manifestation of non-fictional, as well as fictional, content. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document)
Baleen is the apparatus toothless whales rely on to filter food from the sea. It is a feeding structure composed of flexible plates, made of the structural protein keratin, which grow downward from a whale’s upper jaw. (Adapted from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/history-toothless-whales-180964717/)
Solid manure that, following removal from the livestock housing, has undergone a period of storage in a heap. (RAMIRAN Glossary of terms on livestock and manure management 2011)
