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• 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).)
• Traits:Auricularia  + (First free-swimming larval stage of the Holothuroidea. It is characterized by a continuous and curving flagellated band (Stachowitsch, 1992).)
• Traits:Bipinnaria  + (First of the two free-swimming larval forms in the asteroids, characterized by a ciliary band and the presence of arm-like projections (Stachowitsch, 1992; Ruppert & Barnes, 1994).)
• Traits:TypeV  + (First-order opportunistic species (pronounced unbalanced situations). These are deposit- feeders, which proliferate in reduced sediments.)
• Traits:TaxonSpecificBodySizeFish  + (Fish measurement is the measuring of the length of individual fish and of various parts of their anatomy. These data are used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fisheries biology. (Wikipedia))