Drug pollution or pharmaceutical pollution is pollution of the environment with pharmaceutical drugs and their metabolites, which reach the aquatic environment (groundwater, rivers, lakes, and oceans) through wastewater. Drug pollution is therefore mainly a form of water pollution. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_pollution)
Natural mortality is deaths of fish from all causes except fishing (e.g. ageing, predation , cannibalism, disease and perhaps increasingly pollution). It is often expressed as a rate that indicates the percentage of fish dying in a year; for example a natural mortality rate of 0.2 implies that approximately 20% of the population will die in a year from causes other than fishing. (FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, FAO, 2014)
Bedding of absorbent material, e.g. sawdust, wood shavings, straw, mixed with droppings on the floors of buildings housing broiler chickens (i.e. raised for meat). (RAMIRAN Glossary of terms on livestock and manure management 2011)
A continuous stream of bubbles emitted from a sunken hose perforated at intervals through which compressed air is released. (Milne, P.H. (1972) Fish and shellfish farming in coastal waters. Farnham, Surrey, UK, Fishing News Books Ltd. 208p)
The practice of placing aquatic organisms into natural or modified water bodies. (Allocated zones for aquaculture, Studies and Reviews No. 97, FAO, 2019 (http://www.fao.org/3/ca7041en/ca7041en.pdf).)
Situation of a person according to their civil status as single, married (including living in a civil partnership or living in a de facto union/committed intimate relationship recognised by national law), widowed or divorced. (https://eige.europa.eu/thesaurus/terms/1283)
Bed load describes particles in a flowing fluid (usually water) that are transported along the stream bed. Bed load is complementary to suspended load and wash load. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_load)
A surface marine cable, usually a buoyant assembly of electrical wires that connects hydrophones and relays seismic data to the recording seismic vessel. (SLB. nd. Energy Glossary. https://glossary.slb.com/en/terms/s/streamer)
Seamount chain: A linear or arcuate alignment of discrete seamounts. (Standardization of Undersea Feature Names, International Hydrographic Organization 2017 https://iho.int/iho_pubs/bathy/B-6_e4.1.0_2013_EF_rev2017.pdf)
A mosaic virus is any virus that causes infected plant foliage to have a mottled appearance. Such viruses come from a variety of unrelated lineages and consequently there is no taxon that unites all mosaic viruses. (Wikipedia. 2024. Mosaic virus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_virus)
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Not all viruses that may cause a mottled appearance belong to species that include the word "mosaic" in the name.
The major component of arthropod cuticle, a polysaccharide composed of acetyl-glucosamine and glucosamine sub-units. (Pedigo 2002, Wall and Shearer 1997 in IAEA. 2006. SIT-Glossary https://nucleus-qa.iaea.org/sites/naipc/twd/Pages/SIT-Glossary.aspx)
Strained honey that has crystallized. (Bees and their role in forest livelihoods, Non-wood Forest Products No.19, FAO, 2009 (http://www.fao.org/3/a-i0842e.pdf).)
Bhadwari is an improved water buffalo breed from Uttar Pradesh, India, that is kept for milk production mainly in the Agra and Etawah districts, and in the Bhind and Morena districts of Madhya Pradesh. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhadawari)
Old World screwworm (NWS), Chrysomya bezziana Villeneuve, is an obligate parasite of mammals, including humans, during their larval stages. It belongs in the subfamily Chrysomyinae of the family Calliphoridae of the order Diptera (true flies). Larvae feeding on the skin and underlying tissues of the host cause a condition known as wound or traumatic myiasis, which can be fatal. (https://www.woah.org/en/disease/old-world-screwworm-chrysomya-bezziana/)
