benthos

[ UK /bˈɛnθə‍ʊz/ ]
NOUN
  1. a region including the bottom of the sea and the littoral zones
  2. organisms (plants and animals) that live at or near the bottom of a sea
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How To Use benthos In A Sentence

  • The intermediate-level benthos was dominated by sponges, corals, giant bivalves, giant brachiopods, stalked echinoderms and fixed dendroid graptolites.
  • The efficiency of retention is strongly determined by the occurrence of a match (where zooplankton are available to graze and recycle the primary production) or mismatch (where zooplankton are not present in sufficient numbers and primary production sinks out of the euphotic zone to be grazed by the benthos). Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota
  • And we applied the principles of the benthoscope that Barton used to descend forty-five hundred feet in 1949. Tom Swift Jr And His Jetmarine
  • This overall form, together with the apparent restriction of Eurytholia fossils to calcareous deposits, suggests that the animal was not pelagic but belonged instead to the vagile epibenthos.
  • One kind of virtual implement method of benthos terrain and current in the ocean environment, which was used to realize AUV visual simulation, is presented.
  • The smaller meiofauna (mm-sized animals) is less well described and, as an example, a survey of the benthos in the North Sea in 1986 yielded about 40% of benthic copepod species new to science. Marine biodiversity
  • The fish feed on benthos, larva of aquatic insect and other fishes.
  • The smaller meiofauna (mm-sized animals) is less well described and, as an example, a survey of the benthos in the Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth
  • Abundances of nine taxa varied significantly among transition zones and interiors of benthoscape elements, most with elevated abundances in transition zones.
  • Even if an intertidal zone existed, sea ice disturbance, as well as the unstable, gravelly substrate, would make it uninhabitable by intertidal benthos, epifauna, or epiphytes.
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