ASFA Thesaurus 2005-08-20T08:07:00 Luis Bermudez MMI component of atmosphere recommended natural origin made up of organic debris. Before 1982 search CENOZOIC ERA Before 1982 search Before 1982 search EOCENE EPOCH PALEOCENE EPOCH Before 1982 search Before 1982 search TERTIARY PERIOD EPOCH by migration or artificial geographical area of a species transportation Establishment in a new Used for the season recommended Before 1982 search also Before 1982 search Includes covariance Before 1982 search Westward intensification of velocity of wind driven currents oceanographic and climatic Before 1982 search FATS organs morphological or physiological effect upon the reproductive Use of a more specific term is Biological uptake and substances on organisms SEISMICITY Before 1983 search also Use only in tectonic context parallel faults relative to the downthrown between two surrounding area Structural rock feature Before 1994 search also resulting in removal and loss ice Use only for processes That portion of the uprush that carries over the crest of a berm or of a structure State of the atmosphere at a phenomena TELEPHONES Before 1983 search logistics as well as performance of marketing system Management of the aquatic environment Mangrove aquatic environment Use of a more specific term is ASFA-2 Use of a more specific term is Use of a narrower term is biological purposes Harvesting methods for Harvesting equipment for Before 1982 search HARVESTING MACHINES for capture with different Use of light to attract fish CULTURE Common category which especially birds A learning process in animals Conditioned response or reflex sampling and fishing gear Restricted to biological or to obtain marketable fish decrease the density of a stock Fishing carried out in a fish pond during growing season to handling or processing methods International standards for For measurement of water measurement occupation. Before 1982 search Seabed chambers for human ice caps or as a preservative PROPULSION ENGINES. For Before 1982 search also hydrotechnical characteristics Fixed structures built for the Search also SURFACE different insitu temperatures and Sand and gravel dredged and Before 1983 search also DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID RIBONUCLEIC ACID Before 1982 search predators Use of a more specific term is recommended Distributional charts of or along lines of latitude. Used only as a qualifier Before 1982 search DEEP LENITIC CURRENTS height inland regions recommended OCEAN FLOOR for basins with Sound waves and underwater transmission of sound waves and their migrations aquatic organisms Specific geographic area in Single designated plant or the basis for the original name animal specimen that serves as of technical or biological determine its value in terms of Methods for calibrating licence fees derived industrial products allied species including Catch tabulation of whales and Including their formation by natural or artificial biosynthetic processes Referring to culture of fish and other aquatic organisms in Use of a more specific term is recommended. Before 1982 search FISHERY PRODUCTS combination of these methods macroscopic vegetal organism given region forming a natural community A group of plants and animals Before 1982 search Remains of bog and fen vegetation Before 1985 search also Use only for water waves Before 1983 search CURRENT Conversion of continental crust into oceanic crust dealers Use only for listings of books publishers and antiquarian periodicals Collections of sediment coring TIDAL POWER generating electricity of that energy water bodies. For exploitation Lakes occupying basins formed as a result of glaciation EQUATORIAL CURRENTS Search also WATER Oceanic eddies of order 10 kms particulate matter Use only for suspended Scattering of light in water by measurements and amounts on land areas ELECTRICAL Before 1982 search METABOLISM picture of portions of the Earth's surface Satellite-sensed images helicopters water. Before 1984 search also Recovery of materials and equipment including underwater GEOSTROPHIC CURRENTS Before 1982 search TURBIDITY CURRENTS Influence of topography on fluid flow Influence of bottom topography World-wide deep circulation of The ocean above and including Products used for artificial fertilize soils or aquatic Chemical substances used to Use only for water waves and Use only for prediction of wind waves Vertical distribution of released only after death of Poisonous substances produced to the family Salmonidae Freshwater fish not belonging Before 1982 search OFF- BOTTOM CULTURE Before 1982 search AGROPISCICULTURE Before 1982 search agriculture and freshwater Before 1986 use MEANDERS front separating air masses of tropical and polar origin recommended Use of a more specific term is and over air-water interface and air-ice Use of a more specific term is community or ecosystem equilibrium of a biotic Management of aquatic ecosystems on decaying organic matter of stagnant water Plankton found on the surface recommended result of heavy ice cover or The loss of animals in a lake eutrophic lakes matter or by mass development reduction process of organic POPULATION NUMBER if Biological production (contÕd) PRODUCTION (BIOLOGICAL) Restricted to environmental quality abnormalities of water Diseases associated with physical or physico-chemical than 60 microns Alternation of generations The formation by an organism surrounding itself of a protective capsule environmental conditions response to adverse Resistant resting stages formed by different organisms produced by fungi Asexually formed spores aquatic environment Before 1982 search TELEVISION Photographs of the seabed PHOTOGRAPHY Before 1982 search AERIAL recommended Use of a more specific term is ANALYSIS (CHEMICAL) and Before 1982 search LIMNOLOGY (PHYSICAL) Ecological study of a single Taxonomic ecological studies of a species as fishable stock Age at which fish are recruited overfishing A stock (or population) Self-sustaining genetic entities given species alleles in samples of a Relative frequency of living in different geographic Populations of a same species areas closely related species living or having overlapped in the same geographical area Populations of two or more geographical areas population or populations of a A population of specimens Before 1995 search ANIMAL REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS Before 1982 search ENDOCRINE GLANDS Before 1982 search KIDNEY in sediments Gradient or temperature fluxes products Commercial availability of primary and secondary fishery recommended predator/prey or competitive behavioural effects damaging physiological and densities of animals per unit region All individuals of a certain Studies of changes that take place during the life span of a population organisms media for culture of tissue and Fluid Efficiency of food conversion Chemical composition of industrial aquatic products for Before 1982 for non-organic DISCHARGE atmospheric precipitation which term must not be confused in this Water derived from Exclude carangid fisheries Geothermal energy as a source water temperature Before 1982 search PESTICIDES Before 1982 search anaesthesia of aquatic organisms Apparatus and methods for reactions Before 1982 search Before 1982 search ENZYMES See also the taxonomic index down by microorganisms Substances that can be broken sediments solid pollutants or suspended environment The production and development of cancer The amount of radioactive elimination eliminate one-half of the substance by regular process of administered dose of any Time required by the body to a human or animal material present in the body of chemical origin Floating wreckage Carriage of goods and recommended To include systems for fixed and mobile platforms Before 1985 search also DRIFT water density Used only for density gradients in water Gradual decline in quality (of As applied to materials organisms or results of damage or deterioration form islands usually volcanic Flat topped seamounts of seas and lakes and other inland water bodies Outflow of water from lakes environment and organisms Flow from rivers into lakes and the sediment-water interface Before 1983 search also Zone below 1000 m depth Pelagic regions below 1000 m Not reached by sunlight Pertaining to 24-hour For biological purposes use ORIENTATION BEHAVIOUR Hydrostatic influence upon behaviour of aquatic organisms such as pressure or deformation Sense organs specialized to respond to mechanical stimuli Search also NEURONES SYSTEM Before 1982 search NERVOUS ENDOCRINE GLANDS Before 1982 search PHYSIOLOGY produced by power plants Heated or thermal effluents Culture of warm-water organisms Optimum temperature conditions for an organism estuaries or marine coastal zones heated effluents in lakes Plumes caused by discharge of Wind-generated noise breaking sand and shingle due to part or all of the dorsal An exoskeletal shield covering surface of an animal (ORGANISMS) MORPHOLOGY Before 1982 search POLYMORPHISM Before 1982 search advanced stage of development Giving birth to living young which have already reached an beyond the usual period Retention of larval characters life cycle Any marked change in stage of development processes of Before 1984 search also INSTALLING Before 1982 search also NAVIGATION BUOYS Before 1982 search also PHANEROZOIC EON PALEOZOIC ERA Before 1982 search Before 1982 search DEVONIAN PERIOD Before 1982 search also CAMBRIAN PERIOD Before 1982 search PERMIAN SYSTEM Before 1982 search SILURIAN PERIOD SYSTEM Before 1982 search ORDOVICIAN CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD Before 1982 search MESOZOIC ERA Before 1982 search TRIASSIC PERIOD CRETACEOUS PERIOD Before 1982 search PERIOD Before 1982 search JURASSIC Before 1982 search Before 1982 search PRECAMBRIAN ERA Before 1982 search The primitive organisms from which animals and plants arose environment Fate of substances in the REFRACTION Before 1982 search also carrier of a disease agent. Organisms serving as passive weeds or other pests recommended recommended and limnological exploration Restricted to ships and structural components Use for tubular construction CYLINDRICAL BODIES CONCRETE PLATFORMS Before 1986 search also Use of a more specific term is recommended Roughness of water surface Before 1982 search PHOTOSYNTHESIS oxygen in the blood State of suspended animation as a result of deficiency of aquatic life associated with Evaluation of hazards to aquatic ecosystems Effects of human activities on accelerated by man's actions process set in motion or also SEA LAW National and international laws Surveillance of marine space MOTHERSHIPS Before 1982 search Before 1982 search VESSELS military purposes underwater vehicles designed for Use only for manned Including exchange of Before 1986 search also SCIENTISTS instructions and/or procedures Before 1982 search EDUCATION Before 1982 search also only as a qualifier Before 1982 search CATCHING METHODS Hand- or machine-made Description of tanks construction and use Work platforms and equipment Before 1982 search also of sediments and rocks Data on engineering properties MECHANICS Before 1986 search also SOIL OFFSHORE TECHNOLOGY Use with type of offshore Before 1982 search DRILLING DEVICES structures Adjustment of organisms to environment conditions in the aquatic Adjustment of aquatic laboratory Organisms to conditions in the wild Occurring in nature or cultured form Species kept by man from the Organisms or products derived from aquaculture practices (BIOLOGICAL) nervous system. Before 1982 Toxins which affect the search POISONS submerged objects Assemblage of organisms on yellow-green algae occuring in Symbiotic unicellular some radiolarians and polyps attachment of oyster larvae Any substrata placed in the operations seining or encircling Any type of vessel used in subsistence using primitive Refers to fishing dredges only. DREDGES (GEOLOGY) For sediment dredges use Pertains to underwater drilling search also SLICKS Biotic limitations affecting of organisms the dispersal and/or survival Use of a more specific term is recommended ice Protection for offshore surface Net flux of solar and terrestrial radiation at water Heat transfer at air-water air-ice organisms Staining of tissues and Any procedure which makes nitrogen Marking fish with liquid fish subsequently identifiable tags which does not employ the use of aquatic organisms Sound emitted by marine animals present on echo trace by animals. Before 1982 search other sources of sound PROPERTIES Before 1982 search search also FEASIBILITY Includes risk analysis water samples Any action of storage on the products quality of processed fishery Visual inspection for organoleptic quality of seafood testing and monitoring quality Before 1982 search MARKETING LEGISLATION Monitoring of fish and fishery products quality control environment only minerals and subsurface waters. Before Including any type of surface 1982 search also FRESHWATER or other anions nitrate water or used in laboratory Before 1982 search HYDROGEN ISOTOPES Sediment in transport Any man-made arrangement stages of their life cycle disciplines applied to biological Scientific complex of different oceanic conditions of fishing Applied investigations on physico-chemical properties plant cell Outermost rigid layer of a or removal of tissue or organs Transplantation achieving biosynthesis of animal genetic engineering. Before 1986 search also BIOENGINEERING and plant products Engineering methods of Before 1995 search PHOTOPHORES phosphorescence produced by photogenic or luminous organs Biological fluorescence and or organisms Before 1982 search products affecting growth of Chemical and biochemical organisms chemical stimulation within Collective sensorial or Before 1982 search SOCIAL in groups many animals that live together Social hierarchy occurring in also TERRITORIAL defending a territory from BEHAVIOUR Science treating malformations animals. Before 1982 search ABNORMALITIES and monstrosities of plants and of congenital malformations Agents that raise the incidence absence of pigment in aquatic organisms Complete or almost complete Restricted to living organisms (Genes for) paired characteristics TROPICAL CYCLONES Before 1982 search also Use of a more specific term is recommended Energy transformation in living organisms and aquatic ENERGY BUDGET ecosystems. Before 1982 search Ratio of production to food ingestion Before 1982 search ENZYMES enzymes Hydrolysis by means of effects Removal of poison or poison equations satisfying specific Solutions of differential conditions SAMPLING (STATISTICAL) Before 1982 search Including flow charting Before 1982 search SIMULATION LAGRANGIAN METHODS (CURRENT MEASUREMENT) SEISMIC PROFILING regions using geophysical Used for surveys of specific siting of power plants harbours etc. for aquaculture purposes Site selection and evaluation Before 1983 search also Routes along which oceanographic observations are time made regularly over a period of ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEYS Before 1986 search also SITE INVESTIGATION methods Collections in museums banks etc. processes taking place on use OCEAN BASINS. Before 1983 search also SEABED wellheads to manifolds or riser Pipelines from underwater pipes Pipeline construction from barges INDUSTRY recommended ECONOMICS FISHERY ECONOMICS Economics of exploiting wild stocks. Before 1982 search production fisheries in aquaculture fishing marketing technical and financial operations Before 1982 search FEASIBILITY Study of costs related to Statistical analysis of economic computers data with the aid of electronic etc. Economics of all aspects of marketing Measurement of depth in water Charted depth of water term is recommended only. Use of a more specific ASFA-2 only; in ASFA-1 Used as subject descriptor in algal surface water wave motion is a readings motions and instrument major factor in buoy and mooring observations Part of surface layer in which generate water waves in wave tanks Mechanical devices used to specify type of wave Use only for water waves and NODULES and Cu. Before 1982 search Material of biological origin Before 1983 search also ABSORPTIVITY ABSORPTIVITY Before 1982 search Before 1982 search also ABSORPTIVITY BENDS Before 1986 search also Before 1982 search DIVING with articulated limbs Use for one-man equipment Used only as qualifier PRESSURE Before 1982 search WATER Before 1982 search also Before 1982 search also RED 1995 search SUSPENDED zooplankton species. Before phytoplankton regeneration PARTICULATE MATTER rapidly sinking detrital organic food source for some of photosynthesis and nutrient Large aggregates matrix of bacteria TIDES Before 1983 search also MATTER INORGANIC SUSPENDED ORGANIC SUSPENDED MATTER Used as descriptor for ASFA-2 Microscopic one-celled algae. BACILLARIOPHYCEAE descriptor only; for ASFA-1 deposits Consolidated wind-blown hydrothermal solutions composition of rock brought HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS Before 1982 search also THERMAL SPRINGS Before 1982 search recommended which they occur. Use of a more specific term is recommended The nature of the elements present in a substance or CORALS Before 1982 search also recommended Use of a specific compound is Before 1982 search SULPHUR including equipment and methods Energy saving measures fertilizer Any substance natural origin economic value Use only for deposits of sediments found on seafloor Use only for chemical COMPOUNDS organism and the proportion in HAEMATOLOGY specialized for gaseous exchange RESPIRATORY ORGANS Types of blood classified on antigens present the basis of the different Before 1982 search PROTEINS FLUIDS Before 1982 search BODY cells Formation of blood or blood A large phagocytic cell Before 1982 search CELLS Restricted to aquatic swimming use BATHING. organisms. For recreational Before 1982 search in aquatic organisms Movements of organisms other within home range than migrational movements by the mammary glands The process of milk production gland in the foot and used for a tuft of filaments secreted by a In Mollusca Lamellibranchiata attachment form in Hydrozoa and Anthozoa Cylindrical sedentary body Projections of the body normally of sensory function A pair of anterior appendages animals Legs or limbs of aquatic Before 1982 search CILIA Before 1982 search LOCOMOTORY APPENDAGES Including theory of locomotion LOCOMOTION The formation of calcium salt deposits in a tissue Before 1982 search VITAMINS mineral material Chemically precipitated floor permanently attached to the sea above water Towed or self-propelled structures free-swimming capability Unmanned underwater vehicles controlled and/or powered unmanned underwater vehicles Self-propelled Unmanned underwater vehicles capable of self-propulsion and manoeuvrability manoeuvrability Underwater vehicles with 3-D controlled by acoustic command cable. Before 1982 search through a surface connecting TOWED BODIES Underwater vehicles cable lacking self-propulsion and equipment including underwater Deployment of materials and vehicles SALVAGE Before 1986 search also Do not use for drilling oceanographic equipment Recovery of moorings for Transport of sediments by ice aquatic organisms Transport of sediment by An aquaculture water system in discharged after a single pass through the culture area and is which water continuously flows screens. For entrainment as a waters through power plant TURBULENT ENTRAINMENT The buoyant or submerged time weight of the fluid passing through a cross section in unit surface lithosphere Use as tectonic term. Do not Before 1986 search also MANTLE Use of a more specific term is recommended influence on behaviour of aquatic organisms and on sea level Moon phases and their Evolution of planetary atmospheres treatment of tidal motion in hydrosphere WATER Before 1995 search also HIGH solid earth Before 1983 search also Before 1982 search TIDES TIDAL COMPONENTS Before 1982 search also TIDES points along a stream bed or a A line connecting the lowest Automatic devices for counting biological and physical Before 1984 search also SEA LEVEL MEASURING Before 1982 search SEA LEVEL Analog/digital converters valley Before 1982 search also TRANSPORT LONGSHORE SAND enclosed bodies of water level due to wind stress in Use for changes in still water Tidal motion in the atmosphere Only to be used for general out of a region Heat advected by oceanic or atmospheric circulation into or Use of a more specific term is causation of diseases underwater medical practice Restricted to marine and The medical study of the socket gases at the back of the eye Protruding of fish eyeballs as a result of accumulation of fluid or aquaria aquaculture purposes Habitat improvement by natural habitat mainly for fertilizers or other elements and other hydraulic techniques Change of water depth coastal waters creating a Artificial structures introduced sheltered space for fishing or or built in marine or brackish aquaculture volume dams Man-made changes in aquatic Chemical improvement of the adjustment water properties by pH unfavourable elements and lakes Aeration systems used in MUSCULAR SYSTEM and/or Before 1982 search A form of connective tissue of vertebrates. Before 1982 search TISSUES Restricted to age determination GEOCHRONOMETRY. Before 1982 search also AGEING in aquatic organisms. For Before 1982 search AGE A group of fish at a given age. COMPOSITION METHODS physical purposes use SKELETON recommended atmosphere Variation in the value of some meridian physical property along a courses through a land area; Restricted to artificial water irrigation used for navigation Height or level of the sea Use of a more specific term is recommended SEWAGE OUTFALLS Before 1986 search also STRUCTURES Use of a more specific term is recommended. Before 1982 STRUCTURES and MARINE search also COASTAL Intaking of free-floating hydrodynamic process use organisms from surrounding by power plant screens Trapping of aquatic organisms Includes heating equipment superstructures and frozen soil frozen fishery products use Preventing and removing rime and glaze from decks also DE-ICING MELTING. For thawing of THAWING. Before 1996 search For melting of ice/snow on land Oil removal in aquatic and OIL SKIMMERS 1982 search also SKIMMERS environment by mechanical or chemical techniques. Before recommended Use of a more specific term is from underground reservoirs and methods used to produce oil Pertains to surface equipment Formation of rocks aquatic environment Glaciers and their influence on Towed or self-propelled by flooding. Before 1982 structures partially submerged search SEMISUBMERSIBLES Towed or self-propelled platforms supportable on extending legs platforms supportable on Towed or self-propelled flooded hulls Helicopter landing deck Carriage of passengers and goods by air structures with the working vessels in conventional ship form level above water operated in a fixed position Membered structures Before 1986 search also PILES (FOUNDATIONS) and PILING lime salts from bones The process of absorption of shellfish species and their use as commercial products Description and composition of exoskeletons of different (molluscs The branch of zoology dealing with shells of animals by the epidermis of plants and many invertebrates A layer covering and secreted Before 1982 search BODY CAVITY Before 1982 search also POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS Large horizontal recumbent travelled along thrust planes tectonic folds that have AROMATICS Before 1982 search also ropes used for construction of nets