Benthic

A Canadian benthic prefers a Japanese benthic over its close limnetic relative from its own lake.

However, aquarium tests showed that the benthic species from one lake is able to mate with the benthic species from the other lakes.

Assessing marine areas from the perspective of a predator, rather than from a more traditional anthropocentric perspective, can improve scientists' understanding of benthic environments and develop more comprehensive maps of the seabed.

Atmospheric carbon emissions from benthic trawling depend on water depth and ocean circulation.

There's a contraction of these rich Arctic fatty benthic animals from the south to higher amounts in the north," said Grebmeier.

Speaker Richard Wahle will address the influences of the ocean’s physical and biotic environment on the population dynamics and distribution of marine benthic organisms.

Angel sharks and wobbegongs use camouflage to lie in wait and suck prey into their mouths. citation Many benthic sharks feed solely on crustaceans which they crush with their flat molariform teeth.

By contrast, meroplankton are only planktic for part of their lives (usually the larval stage), and then graduate to either a nektic or benthic (sea floor) existence.

Catfish have a variety of body shapes, though most have a cylindrical body with a flattened ventrum to allow for benthic feeding.

During the cooling period, benthic oxygen isotopes show the possibility of ice creation and ice increase during this later cooling.

Ecology Scientists have long debated whether the agnostids lived a pelagic or a benthic lifestyle.

Ecology They were probably benthic (bottom-dwellers).

Environmental impact The main point of interaction of cables with marine life is in the benthic zone of the oceans where the majority of cable lies.

Free-swimming ( nectonic ) organisms are relatively rare, with the majority of organisms being bottom dwelling (benthic) — either moving about (vagrant) or permanently attached to the sea floor (sessile).

Furthermore, the orientation of the thoracic appendages appears ill suited for benthic living.

However, recent work suggests that some agnostids were benthic predators, engaging in cannibalism and possibly manifesting pack-hunting behavior.

In coastal waters and other places where light reaches the bottom, benthic photosynthesizing diatoms can proliferate.

In some years, the whales have also used an offshore feeding ground in convert depth southeast of Chayvo Bay, where benthic amphipods and cumaceans are the main prey species.

Its snout is sharply downturned, an adaptation for feeding in benthic seagrass communities.

Most adult carideans are benthic animals living primarily on the sea floor.