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Many marine fishes have a larval stage in thepelagiczonebefore changing habitat to a more bottom dwelling life.
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Many marine fishes have long larval phase in the upperpelagiczonebefore transformation into a juvenile and a benthic life style.
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Vertical exchange may also occur within the layers that constitute thepelagiczone.
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Zooplankton was sampled in the coastal and in thepelagiczone(c. 2.5 km offshore).
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Thepelagiczoneincludes all open ocean regions, and can be divided into further regions categorized by depth and light abundance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For comparison, thepelagiczoneis the descriptive term for the ecological region above the benthos, including the water-column up to the surface.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thepelagiczoneoccupies 1,330 million cubic kilometres (320 million cubic miles) with a mean depth of 3.68 km and maximum depth of 11 km.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Unlike most other tunicates, they live in thepelagiczone, specifically in the upper sunlit portion of the ocean (photic zone) or sometimes deeper.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is one of the most abundant sharks in thepelagiczone, and can be found around the world in tropical waters.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Unpredictable ocean currents have been known to remove experimental iron patches from thepelagiczone, invalidating the experiment.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, some inhabit freshwater environments and, with the exception of thepelagiczone, marine environments as well.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thepelagiczonecontains macro- and microfauna and myriad zooplankton which drift with the currents.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.During the first three to five years of life, sea turtles spend most time in thepelagiczonefloating in seaweed beds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Fish that live in thepelagiczoneare called pelagic fish.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is known to dwell at a maximum depth of 1168 m, and inhabits thepelagiczone.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thepelagiczonecan be contrasted with the benthic and demersal zones at the bottom of the sea.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is an opportunistic feeder, and eats dead and rotting animals that float down from thepelagiczoneof the ocean.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thepelagiczonecan be further subdivided into two subregions: the neritic zone and the oceanic zone.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If the water is exceptionally deep, thepelagiczonebelow 4000 metres is sometimes called the lower midnight or abyssopelagic zone.
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