A small, low, coastal island or emergent reef of sand or coral; a flat mound of sand and admixed coral fragments, built up on a reef flat at or just above high-tide level. (Glossary of geology / Robert L. Bates and Julia A. Jackson, editors. -- Bates, Robert Latimer, 1912- .Falls Church, Va. : American Geological Institute, 1980.2d ed. -- x, 751 p.;First ed. (c1972) by M. Gary, R. McAfee, Jr., and C. L. Wolf.;ISBN 0913312150. * 1980)
Yessotoxins (YTXs) are a group of structurally related polyether toxins produced by the dinoflagellates Protoceratium reticulatum, Lingulodinium polyedrum and Gonyaulax spinifera. (Paz B, Daranas AH, Norte M, Riobó P, Franco JM, Fernández JJ. Yessotoxins, a group of marine polyether toxins: an overview. Mar Drugs. 2008 May 7;6(2):73-102. doi: 10.3390/md20080005. PMID: 18728761; PMCID: PMC2525482.)
An imbalance between supply and demand of freshwater in a specified domain (e.g. country, region, catchment or river basin) as a result of a high rate of demand compared with available supply, under prevailing institutional arrangements (including price) and infrastructural conditions. Symptoms are unsatisfied demand, tensions between users, competition for water, overextraction of groundwater and insufficient flows to the natural environment. (FAO. 2022. The State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture – Systems at breaking point. Main report. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cb9910en)
Note
Levels can be measured as water scarcity (absolute), and water scarcity (chronic).
Lava-dammed lakes are lakes formed by damming of water by volcanic lava or deposits. (Adapted from: Christenson, B et al (2015) Volcanic Lakes. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36833-2_2)
Migration corridors are the predictable routes on which seasonally migrating animals travel. (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00208/full)
The mechanisms of reproductive isolation are a collection of evolutionary mechanisms, behaviors and physiological processes critical for speciation. They prevent members of different species from producing offspring, or ensure that any offspring are sterile. These barriers maintain the integrity of a species by reducing gene flow between related species (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_isolation)
Capital participation to production or economic activities. (Multilingual thesaurus on land tenure (English version)
ISBN 92-5-104283-7
http://www.fao.org/3/a-x2038e.pdf)
Laboratory testing performed on microbes to find out if they are susceptible or resistant to one or more drugs. (https://www.cdc.gov/narms/resources/glossary.html)
Ther epicentre in seismology is the point on the Earth's surface directly above a hypocenter or focus, the point where an earthquake or an underground explosion originates. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicenter)
Tobacco etch virus (TEV; genus Potyvirus) is flexuous rod shaped with a single molecule of single-stranded RNA and causes serious yield losses in species in the Solanaceae. (Murphy JF, Hallmark HT, Ramaraj T, Sundararajan A, Schilkey F, Rashotte AM. Three Strains of Tobacco etch virus Distinctly Alter the Transcriptome of Apical Stem Tissue in Capsicum annuum during Infection. Viruses. 2021 Apr 23;13(5):741. doi: 10.3390/v13050741. PMID: 33922755; PMCID: PMC8145408.)
A reference model that serves two goals: provide an extensible basis for the development and refinement of efficient and effective land administration systems, based on a Model Driven Architecture (MDA); enable involved parties, both within one country and between different countries, to communicate, based on the shared vocabulary (that is, an ontology), implied by the model. (Land Administration Domain Model ISO 19152:2012(en))
Note
ISO Land Administration Domain Model ISO 19152:2012(en) term