Traits:Ecological Descriptors
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Ecological Descriptors
Ecological Descriptors: Collection of traits relating to species ecology
Accessory feeding structures • Accretion • Accretion • Aerial dipping • Aerial hawking • Aggregations • Algal gravel • Algal gravel • Ambusher • Amorphous CaCO3 • Anchor-shaped • Appendages (paddles) • Aragonite • Arborescent/Arbuscular • Aristotle's lantern • Arms or appendages • Articulate • Autotroph • Ballooning/Kiting • Beak • Bed forming • Bio-genic • Biodiffusor • Biting or macerating • Bivalved • Blind-ended ventilation • Body form • Body shape • Browser • Buccal organ absent or occluded • Bullate/Saccate • Burrow builder • Burrower • Bysso-pelagic • Calcareous • Calcareous • Calcite • Capitate/Clubbed • Captacula • Carnivore • Cephalic spines • Chains • Chemoautotroph • Chitinous • Choanocytes • Cilia/Flagella • Clathrate • Clawed • Colonial (e.g. sea birds) • Commensal (with/on/in) • Cone (Conical) • Cone with half sphere • Contact dipping • Coral (or similar) sands • Crawler/Walker/Climber • Creeper • Cruising • Crustose hard • Crustose soft • Ctenidia • Cushion • Cylindrical • Dabbling • De-Oxygenation Tolerance • Dendroid • Dependency • Deposit Feeder • Detritivore • Diel • Digitate • Dipping • Dipping to surface • Dispersal potential (adult) • Diving • Double cone • Downward conveyor • Drifter • Driving Fish Forward • Ecological Interaction • Ecophysiology • Ectoparasitic • Encrusting • Endoparasitic • Endoskeleton • Erect • Eversible pharynx • Exoskeleton (including shells) • External Tube • Faunal beds • Feeding • Feeding Method/Behaviour • Feeding apparatus • Filiform • Filter basket • Flabellate • Flaccid • Flattened Ellipsoid • Flexibility • Floating • Flyer (Flight) • Foliose • Following Fishing Boats • Food Piracy • Food Type/Diet • Foot Paddling • Foot Stirring • Forest • Forest-forming • Fragile • Fragility • Free living • Funnel Shaped • Gill rakers • Gills • Glider • Globose • Gorgonin • Grasping • Grasping claws • Grasping paws, hands, feet • Grazer • Grazer (fronds/blades) • Grazer (grains / particles) • Grazer (surface/substratum) • Grazer/Browser • Gregarious • Ground Foraging • Growth Rate • Growth form (or type) • Habitat modification • Half cone • Half cone with flattened ellipsoid • Half parallelepiped • Half sphere (dome) • Hawking • Height (above substratum) • Herbivore • Heterotroph • High Magnesium Calcite • Host • Hover dipping • Hovering • Hydrostatic skeleton • Independant (free living) • Inhalent siphon • Inquilinist • Intermediary • Introvert • Jet propulsion • Jumper/Hopper • Keratinous • Kleptoparasitism • Lanceolate • Large (insect colonies) • Lophophore • Lures • Massive • Mat • Medusiform/Medusoid • Migration (migratory) • Mixed Calcareous Material • Mixotroph • Mobile • Mobility • Mode of Life • Modular • Monoraphidioid • Mouth parts • Movement • Mucus mesh or net • Muscular axial proboscis • Muscular contraction (body length) • Mutualist (mutualism) • Non-Feeding • Non-Territorial • Non-migratory (resident) • Non-solid; cement • Non-solid; particles • Omnivore • Ontogenetic migration • Open-ended ventilation • Oral podia • Organic • Other • Oval cylinder • Palps • Papillae or tube feet • Parallelepiped (rhomboid) • Parasitic • Parasitic • Parasitoid • Passive • Passive drifter • Pattering • Penicillate • Phagocytosis • Phosphatic • Photoautotroph • Photosynthetic pigment(s) • Picking from the water surface • Piercing • Piercing or suctorial • Pinnate • Pinnate or branching • Pisciform • Plunge Diving • Plunging • Pouncing • Predator (Hunter) • Probing • Pursuit Diving • Pursuit Hunter (individual) • Pursuit Plunging • Pursuit hunter (co-operative) • Radial • Radulae • Rasping • Reef-building • Regenerator • Reticulate • Robust • Rotational ellipsoid • Saprophage • Scavenger • Searcher/Forager • Seasonal (environment) • Seasonal (feeding) • Seasonal (reproduction) • Sediment reworking • Seizing • Sessile • Setose (Hairy) • Shallow plunging • Shrub • Siliceous • Simple axial proboscis • Skimming • Small (tribe/pride/pack/pod) • Snatching • Sociability • Social group • Solid • Solitary • Sphere (spherical) • Sponginous • Stacks • Stellate • Sticky or mucus covered • Stinging • Straplike/Ribbonlike • Stun attack • Sub-surface deposit feeder • Substratum • Subsurface seizing • Suctorial (sucker bearing) • Support • Supporting Structures and Enclosures • Surface Diving • Surface dabbling • Surface deposit feeder • Surface dipping • Surface plunging • Surface seizing • Suspension feeder • Swimmer • Swimming • Symbiont contribution • Symbiotic • Tadpole • Talons • Temperature range tolerated • Temporary attachment • Tentacles • Territorial • Trapezoid/Trapezium • Traps • Truncated cone • Tube dwelling (tubicolous) • Turbinate • Turf • Underwater seizing • Underwater swimming • Unitary • Upward conveyor • Variable • Ventral buccal organ • Ventral muscular proboscis • Vermiform • Vermiform Unsegmented • Vermiform annulated • Vermiform segmented • Wading in shallow water • Whiplike
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