benthos
benthon

The animals and plants that live on or in the bottom are known as the benthos.

As adults they are benthos and stay on the sandy bottom.

Many species have a higher density than water which should make them sink and end up in the benthos.

Most fresh water species are part of the periphyton and benthos.

This is their main adaptation to living on the seabed (benthos).

The main food sources for the benthos are algae and organic runoff from land.

Benthos: the flora and fauna found at the bottom of the sea or lake.

Others live in the benthos, on or in the upper layer of the sea floor.

Many types of seaweeds are found in the benthos.

Other areas have had sediments covered with concrete to prevent the fish eating the benthos.

A Benthos autonomous underwater vehicle hung in a cradle over the water.

Massive kills can occur when oil reaches the benthos in sufficient quantity.

This species likely feeds through suction on the benthos.

As life died off in the lower (benthos) levels of the sea, so did the predators at the top of the food chain.

Over the last decade volunteer Kuwaiti divers were busy cleaning the benthos.

Organisms living in this zone are called benthos.

Marine organisms living in this zone, such as clams and crabs, are called benthos.

There are total of 43 species of benthos.

They are covered with sediment but largely devoid of benthic life (benthos).

Microbenthos are microscopic benthos that are less than 32 m in size.

The imagery equipment consisted of a Benthos video camera with low-light sensitivity and high resolution.

Monoplacophora are a geographically widespread component of the benthos.

These species strobilate in summer, but maintain polyps in the benthos year round.

Tuna farms are point sources of solid waste onto to the benthos and dissolved nutrients into the water column.

Nevertheless, today he is mainly remembered for his significant contribution to the development of the community concept for marine benthos.

Stefan Nehring and Ute Albrecht (1997): "hell und das redundante Benthon: Neologismen in der deutschsprachigen Limnologie".