benthic organisms
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organism
noun[C]
uk/ˈɔː.ɡən.ɪ.zəm/us/ˈɔːr-/
a single living plant, animal, ...
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After reaching maturity, it ceases to feed and becomes a free-living,benthicorganism.
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This layer will be assumed to be completely mixed with the environment and should preventbenthicorganismfrom descending further into the in-situ cap.
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The food is then squirrelled away for poorer times deep in the sediment, out of reach to other benthic organisms.
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This is expressed in a decrease in the diversity of the pelagic/nektobenthic component of the community (conodonts) and an increase in the diversity of benthic organisms.
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Notably, one would predict that planktonic organisms or larvae would more likely be affected than benthic organisms because the former are less shielded from radiation (unless they occupied deep water).
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Eventually, other and smaller species of shorebirds, such as sandpipers, stilts and plovers, may find it worthwhile to feed on the growing population of smaller and more soft-bodied benthic organisms.
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Here it can become lethal to adult fish, and to benthic organisms, and to zooplankton and phytoplankton which are the basis of primary production in the sea.
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They feed on benthic organisms, including brittle stars, chitons, and crustaceans such as crabs and shrimp.
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These benthic organisms rely heavily on the supply of nutrients that settle to the sea floor.
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The floating particles increase the turbidity, or cloudiness, of the water, clogging filter-feeding apparatuses used by benthic organisms.
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This species has a varied diet of benthic organisms including algae, crustaceans (isopods, amphipods, ostracods, copepods), mollusks (gastropods, chitons) and polychaete worms.
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As a consequence, metals can accumulate in the tissue of benthic organisms and their predators at higher trophic levels.
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Juveniles feed on zooplankton at first and then benthic organisms.
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There was accumulation of sludge particles on the seafloor and consequent changes in the numbers and types of benthic organisms.
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It is a shy and retiring fish, usually living solitarily and feeding on benthic organisms.
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They are benthic organisms, spending most of their time near the sandy bottoms, at a depth of roughly two hundred meters.
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Removing parts of the sea floor could disturb the habitat of benthic organisms, with unknown long-term effects.
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The bigmouth sanddab is a predator, feeding on large benthic organisms and small fish.
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