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/ˈnɛktən/
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NOUN
- the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales
How To Use nekton In A Sentence
- Within the plankton, holoplankton are those that spend their entire life cycle in the plankton, while meroplankton are those organisms that are only planktonic for part of their lives (usually the larval stage), and then move into the nekton or a benthic habitat. Plankton
- Plants and animals arrive as plankton, nekton (free-swimming), fouling organisms (attached inside and on the hulls, propellers, and intake systems of vessels), and benthos (bottom dwellers).
- Brodeur R.D., and D.M. Ware, 1995. interdecadal variability in distribution and catch rates of epipelagic nekton in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. California Current large marine ecosystem
- Many benthic and nektonic organisms experienced a major crisis, including calcareous and organic-walled phytoplankton.
- Endemic marine biota are typical for this interval; the restricted epicontinental seas favoured in situ evolution of benthonic, planktonic and nektonic organisms.
- The plankton, which drifts upon the surface of the sea, is distinct from the nekton, which swims submerged. The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
- Plankton are unable to swim against ocean currents, while larger nekton such as fish and squid can swim against the flow of the water. Plankton
- It is the region inhabited by plankton, which are minute organisms that drift or float at various depths in the water, and by nekton, which are free-swimming organisms.
- He proceeded to draw divisions between the bottom organisms without power of motion, benthon, the nekton motile life in mid-water, and the plankton or floating life. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
- Composition, structure and dynamics of the epipelagic nekton communities. Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea)