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• Traits:Arrhenotoky  + (Haploid males develop from unfertilized eggs and diploid females from fertilized eggs (adapted from Lincoln 'et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:SupportingStructuresEnclosures  + (Hard framework, internal or external, which supports and protects softer parts of plant, animal or unicellular organism, and to which muscles usually attach in animals, includes skeletons (derived from Lawrence, 2005).)
• Traits:Hard  + (Hard substratum e.g. bedrock, concrete, boulders,cobbles and pebbles)
• Traits:Shrub  + (Having a very short stem with branches near the ground (Thompson, 1995).)
• Traits:Anisogamous  + (Having flagellate gametes of different size, shape or behaviour (from Bold, 1977 and Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:Oogamous  + (Having large, non-motile eggs and small motile sperm (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:Digitate  + (Having parts arranged like fingers on a hand (Holmes, 1979).)
• Traits:Gonochoristic  + (Having separate sexes/genders (Barnes ''et al.'', 1993).)
• Traits:Tadpole  + (Having the body form of a tadpole i.e. consisting of a round head with a tail.)
• Traits:ArborescentArbuscular  + (Having the shape or characteristics of a tree.)
• Traits:HeightAboveSubstratum  + (Height above the surface of the substratum of an individual or single modular colony. e.g a blade of seagrass, a seaweed thallus, projecting tube worm, upright sea pen etc.)
• Traits:SequentialHermaphrodite  + (Hermaphrodite in which the male and female organs mature (that is produce gametes) at different times in the reproductive cycle (adapted from Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998))
• Traits:HardImmobile  + (Immobile hard substratum e.g. solid rock, concrete but including soft rocks, such as chalk.)
• Traits:Wingspan  + (In birds (Aves) - "the distance between th … In birds (Aves) - "the distance between the wing tips when the wings are held outstretched" (Wikipedia) or "wingtip to wingtip in flight" (BTO).</br></br>In winged insects (Insecta) - "may refer to the distance between the centre of the thorax to the apex of the wing doubled or to the width between the apices with the wings set with the trailing wing edge perpendicular to the body" (Wikipedia)</br></br>Note: For wingspan you can specify the measurement type (minimum, maximum, average), gender (male, female) and life stage.ge), gender (male, female) and life stage.)
• Traits:Pathway/vector Other  + (In cases where pathway/vector is not specified/ cases of novel pathways/vectors.)
• Traits:ParallelepipedRhomboid  + (In geometry, a parallelepiped is a three-dimensional figure formed by six parallelograms (the term rhomboid is also sometimes used with this meaning))
• Traits:Reticulate  + (In the form of a mesh or net (Prescott, 1969).)
• Traits:Straplike  + (In the form of a strap or ribbon.)
• Traits:Whiplike  + (In the form of a whip.)
• Traits:Kleptoparasitism  + (In which the female of one species steals the food reserves or prey of a female of another species, to feed her own progeny (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998))
• Traits:NonSelfing  + (Incapable of self-fertilization, due to physical or temporal separation of gametes, and/or self-incompatability genes)
• Traits:Independant (Free living)  + (Independant, individual organisms)
• Traits:Territorial  + (Independent but maintains a defined territory)
• Traits:NonTerritorial  + (Independent without a defined territory)
• Traits:Meiobiota  + (Individual organisms with a mean body size between 0.2 and 2.0 mm.)

• Traits:Macrobiota  + (Individual organisms with a mean body size between 2.0 and 200 mm.)

• Traits:Megabiota  + (Individual organisms with a mean body size larger than 200 mm.)
• Traits:Microbiota  + (Individual organisms with a mean body size smaller than 0.2 mm.)
• Traits:Impact  + (Information on the impact of introduced an … Information on the impact of introduced and invasive marine species has been recorded. These include impacts on native species, their habitats and ecosystems, human health and activity, transmission of diseases, etc. Descriptive terms of impacts were standardized and listed in a look-up table. These terms have been adapted from Hayes (2005).terms have been adapted from Hayes (2005).)
• Traits:Articulate  + (Jointed, arthrous (Holmes, 1979).)
• Traits:Lanceolate  + (Lance shaped and usually elongate (Brusca, 1980).)
• Traits:LargeInsectColonies  + (Large colonies of indivduals cooperating for mutual benefit, made up of thousnads or more individuals, often with a dominant matriach, e.g. social incests , bees etc.)
• Traits:Protonymphon  + (Larval pycnogonid that bears three pairs of appendages, the chelicerae, palps and ovigerous legs (Ruppert & Barnes, 1996).)
• Traits:Clathrate  + (Latticed (Holmes, 1979).)
• Traits:Intermediary  + (Liable to suffer minor damage, chips or cracks as result of physical impacts.)
• Traits:Fragile  + (Likely to break, or crack as a result of physical impact; brittle or friable.)
• Traits:Hyperbenthic  + (Living above but close to the substratum (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:Solitary  + (Living alone, not gregarious (Thompson 1995).)
• Traits:Demersal  + (Living at or near the bottom of a sea or lake but having the capacity for active swimming (from Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:Gregarious  + (Living in groups or communities, growing in clusters (Thompson, 1995) - where the organisms actively seek out members of the same species as adult or larvae/juveniles for protection from the environment, predators or for breeding)
• Traits:Plankton  + (Living in the fluid medium (water or air) but unable to maintain their position or distribution independently of the movement of the water/air mass (adapted from Lincoln <i>et al.</i>, 1998).)
• Traits:Neustonic  + (Living on or under the surface film of open water.)
• Traits:Epizooic  + (Living on the exterior of a living animal but not parasitic upon it.)
• Traits:Epiphytic  + (Living on the surface of a living plant but not parasitic upon it.)
• Traits:Epilithic  + (Living on the surface of rock or other hard inorganic substrata)
• Traits:Epibenthic  + (Living on the surface of the seabed.)
• Traits:Pleustonic  + (Living permanently at the water surface due to their own buoyancy, normally positioned partly in the water and partly in the air.)
• Traits:Endozoic  + (Living within the body of an animal (Lincoln ''et al.'', 1998).)
• Traits:Interstitial  + (Living within the system of cavities and channels formed by the spaces between grains in a sediment (interstitial space).)
• Traits:Macroalgae  + (Macroalgal surfaces, such as kelps and fucoids.)
• Traits:Maerl  + (Maerl beds formed by build up of maerl.)