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- Traits:Pinnate + (Branching like a feather – an elongate main axis with lateral branches or lobes (Prescott, 1969).)
- Traits:Semelparous + (Breeding once per lifetime, or breeding only once then dying (Barnes ''et al.'', 2006). Organisms that only have one brood during their lifetime (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
- Traits:BiannualEpisodic + (Breeds every second year but in one or more discrete periods initiated by some trigger (for example a lunar cycle).)
- Traits:AnnualEpisodic + (Breeds every year but in one or more discrete periods initiated by some trigger (for example a lunar cycle).)
- Traits:AnnualProtracted + (Breeds every year over an extended or drawn out period.)
- Traits:Biannual + (Breeds less frequently than every two years.)
- Traits:BiannualProtracted + (Breeds once every two years over an extended or drawn out period.)
- Traits:Environment + (Broad descriptors of the major environmental regions)
- Traits:Penicillate + (Brush like (Prescott ,1969).)
- Traits:BodyAccretion + (Build up or accumulation of sediment.)
- Traits:Massive + (Bulky (Homes, 1979).)
- Traits:CITES + (CITES (the Convention on International Tra … CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is an international agreement between governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival.</br></br>Appendices I, II and III to the Convention are lists of species afforded different levels or types of protection from over-exploitation.ypes of protection from over-exploitation.)
- Traits:HighMagnesiumCalcite + (Calcite where more then 8wt.% CaCO3 is substituted by MgCO3.)
- Traits:Mobile + (Capable of movement)
- Traits:PermanentHermaphrodite + (Capable of producing both ova and spermatozoa either at the same time (Barnes ''et al.'', 1993).)
- Traits:SelfFertilizing + (Capable of self-fertilization)
- Traits:Passive + (Catching food on a filter held into flowing water (e.g. hydroids, sea fans, sea pens), or collecting the 'rain' of detritus on sticky apparatus other than a filter (e.g. Cucumaria frondosa, proboscis of echinurans) (MarLIN; Hiscock et al. 1999).)
- Traits:StraitSound + (Channels between the mainland and an island or between two islands which are open at both ends to the open coast (it does not refer to similar features or narrows within marine inlets).)
- Traits:Bivalved + (Characteristically a shell of two calcareous valves joined by a flexible ligament.)
- Traits:Physiography + (Coastal geomorphology and physical features.)
- Traits:AnchialineCaves + (Coastal salt water habitats with no surface connection to the sea.)
- Traits:VerySheltered + (Coasts with a fetch less than about 3 km where they face prevailing winds or about 20 km where they face away from prevailing winds, or which have offshore obstructions such as reefs or a narrow (<30°) open water window.)
- Traits:Sheltered + (Coasts with a restricted fetch and/or open water window. Coasts can face prevailing winds but with a short fetch (< 20 km) or extensive shallow area offshore, or may face away from prevailing winds.)
- Traits:Ecological Descriptors + (Collection of traits relating to species ecology)
- Traits:SealAbundanceAndDistribution + (Common in OSPAR Region II)
- Traits:MarineMammalBycatch + (Common in OSPAR Region II)
- Traits:RecoveryInThePopulationAbundanceOfSensitiveFishSpecies + (Common in OSPAR Region II, III)
- Traits:ChangesInBiodiversityIndex + (Common in OSPAR Region III)
- Traits:TypicalSpeciesComposition + (Common in OSPAR Region IV)
- Traits:ChangeInAverageTrophicLevelOfMarinePredatorsInTheBayOfBiscay + (Common in OSPAR Region IV)
- Traits:GreySealPupProduction + (Common in OSPAR Regions II, III)
- Traits:ProportionOfLargeFish + (Common in OSPAR Regions II, III)
- Traits:AbundanceAndDistributionOfMarineMammals + (Common in OSPAR Regions II, III, IV)
- Traits:MarineBirdAbundance + (Common in OSPAR Regions II, III, IV)
- Traits:MarineBirdBreedingSuccessFailure + (Common in OSPAR Regions II, III, IV)
- Traits:ConditionOfBenthicHabitatCommunities + (Common in OSPAR Regions II, III, IV)
- Traits:ExtentOfPhysicalDamageToPredominantAndSpecialHabitats + (Common in OSPAR Regions II, III, IV)
- Traits:ChangesInPlanktonFunctionalTypesIndexRatio + (Common in OSPAR Regions II, III, IV)
- Traits:PlanktonBiomassAndOrAbundance + (Common in OSPAR Regions II, III, IV)
- Traits:TrendsInNewRecordsOfNonIndigenousSpeciesIntroducedByHumanActivities + (Common in OSPAR Regions II, III, IV)
- Traits:SizeCompositionInFishCommunities + (Common in OSPAR Regions II, III, IV)
- Traits:Conical + (Cone shaped e.g. limpet-shaped, patelliform (adapted from Stachowitsch, 1992).)
- Traits:ConeHalfSphere + (Cone with a half sphere (Olenina ''et al.'', 2006).)
- Traits:TruncatedCone + (Cone with flattended top (Olenina ''et al.'', 2006))
- Traits:AlgalGravel + (Constructs deep beds of calcareous algal nodules, e.g. maerl beds)
- Traits:SocialGroup + (Cooperative groups of the same species - e.g. social insects, mammals)
- Traits:Introduced country and/or sea area + (Country or sea area that is recorded as the known introduced range of the species.)
- Traits:Source country and/or sea area + (Country or sea area which is the known source area of the introduced species or population. The source area could be the native range of the species or a known introduced range.)
- Traits:Native country and/or native sea area + (Country or sea area which is the native range of the species.)
- Traits:Actinula + (Crawling larval stage of some hydoids (amend))
- Traits:Diel + (Daily, pertaining to a 24 hour period.)
- Traits:WaveExposed + (Defined via traits - but included as some authors do not specify level of wave exposure.)
- Traits:WaveSheltered + (Defined via traits below - included as some authors do not specify)
- Traits:FaunalBeds + (Dense aggregation of animals that visually dominate the seabed or shore such as brittlestars (e.g. ''Ophiothrix fragilis'' ) or mussels (e.g. ''Mytilus edulis'').)
- Traits:CoralSands + (Deposition of sands formed by the breakdown to the skeletons of living organisms)
- Traits:Dependancy + (Description of an organism's relationship with other organisms)
- Traits:DiapauseStage + (Description of dormant stage)
- Traits:SedimentReworking + (Description of how an organism modifies or changes the physico-chemical nature of the habitat itself, e.g sediment reworking, deposition of faeces, or burrowing)
- Traits:LarvalJuvenileDevelopment + (Description of how the larvae or juveniles develop into adults)
- Traits:FeedingApparatus + (Description of the apparatus (mechanism) used to collect/capture food)
- Traits:Lifestage + (Description of the larval and juvenile stages in the life cycle of an organism)
- Traits:Fertilization + (Description of the location of fertilization, whereby in animals/macroalgae a gametes are fertilized or in plants pollination occurs.)
- Traits:LarvalSettlement + (Description of the period of time over which larval settlement occurs.)
- Traits:FoodTypeDiet + (Description of the source of the organisms nurishment, i.e. what it feeds on)
- Traits:SubstratumHabitat + (Description of the substratum on or in which an organism is found or recorded.)
- Traits:EggClutchLocation + (Description of where fertilized eggs are placed or held)
- Traits:Province + (Descriptors of the major 'regions' of the seas.)
- Traits:GameteType + (Descriptors of the relative size of gametes)
- Traits:FeaturesOther + (Descriptors of types of unusual or unique types of substratum or habitat)
- Traits:GrowthForm + (Deterministic growth or indeterminate growth resulting in single unitary individuals or modular (colonial) organisms.)
- Traits:Lecithotrophic + (Development at the expense of internal resources (i.e. yolk) provided by the female (Barnes ''et al.'', 1993).)
- Traits:DirectDevelopment + (Development without a larval stage)
- Traits:OntogeneticMigration + (Different life stages migrate into different habitats, or part of habitat (e.g. copepods) (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
- Traits:Medusiform + (Disk, bell or umbrella shaped and often gelatinous (Barnes et al., 1988).)
- Traits:LowerCircalittoral + (Dominated by animals with no foliose algae but encrusting Rhodophycota patchy in grazed areas. The part of the circalittoral subzone on hard substrata below the maximum depth limit of foliose algae (based on Hiscock, 1985).)
- Traits:UpperCircalittoral + (Dominated by animals with sparse foliose a … Dominated by animals with sparse foliose algae except where grazed. The part of the circalittoral subzone on hard substrata distinguished by the presence of scattered foliose algae amongst the dominating animals; its lower limit is the maximum limit of depth for foliose algae (based on Hiscock, 1985).or foliose algae (based on Hiscock, 1985).)
- Traits:DoubleCone + (Double cone (Olenina ''et al.'', 2006))
- Traits:Estuary + (Downstream part of a river where it widens to enter the sea; often with significant freshwater influence and predominantly comprising sediment habitats.)
- Traits:RiaVoe + (Drowned river valleys of south-west Britain (ria) and Shetland (voe). Often with a greater presence of rock and more marine in character than estuaries.)
- Traits:LarvalStageDuration + (Duration of the larval stage recorded in days or months.)
- Traits:AnchorShaped + (E.g. ''Ceratium'' spp.)
- Traits:Artificial + (E.g. wood, metal or concrete structures.)
- Traits:Juvenile + (Early adult life stage of an organism that shares the morphology and ecology of the adult but is not capable of reproduction.)
- Traits:Conaria + (Early larval stage in siphonophores, composed of a floating colony with disc-shaped float, and consists of a hollow sphere with aboral thickening (Stachowitsch, 1992).)
- Traits:Oviparous + (Egg laying; producing eggs that are laid and hatch externally (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
- Traits:External + (Egg/sperm meet and fertilize externally to parental individuals, tissues or confines of their bodies, but within the fluid medium)
- Traits:NoOviparousCare + (Eggs are laid and abandoned by adult)
- Traits:AdultBurrow + (Eggs are placed or retained within the parents burrow)
- Traits:BroodChamber + (Eggs retained by adult, usually in specialised cavity/appendage where the eggs develop to larval or juvenile stage)
- Traits:FreeWaterColumn + (Eggs spawned into water column)
- Traits:Lagoon + (Enclosed bodies of water, separated or partially separated from the sea by shingle, sand or sometimes rock and with a restricted exchange of water with the sea, yielding varying salinity regimes.)
- Traits:Phagocytosis + (Engulfing prey/food item in cytoplasm)
- Traits:CapitateClubbed + (Enlarged or swollen at the apex, with a ‘head’, clubbed (Prescott, 1969).)
- Traits:BirdsDirective + (Europe is home to more than 500 wild bird species. But at least 32 % of the EU's bird species are currently not in a good conservation status. The Birds Directive aims to protect all of the 500 wild bird species naturally occurring in the European Union.)
- Traits:Bathylpelagic + (Extends from ca 1000-2500 m.)
- Traits:Planktotrophic + (Feeding at least in part on materials captured from the plankton (Barnes ''et al.'', 1993).)
- Traits:Grazer + (Feeding on herbage, algae or phytoplankton by consuming the whole plant or the surface growth (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998))
- Traits:Browser + (Feeding on parts of plants (e.g. shoots, leaves, twigs) or parts of other organisms (e.g. siphon nipping by fish). (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
- Traits:Internal + (Fertilization (gametes meet) within the body (or body cavity or accessory organ) of the individual)
- Traits:Distribution Descriptors + (Fields and traits that describe the distribution of the species.)
- Traits:Cypris + (Final lecithotrophic larval stage, characterized by bivalved carapace, compound eyes, prehensile antennules and thoraic appendages (cirri) (see Stachowitsch, 1992).)