A region including the bottom of the sea and the littoral zones.
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Examples for "benthos "
Examples for "benthos "
1 Our knowledge of the biodiversity of the Southern Ocean (SO) deep benthos is scarce.
2 Here we show that sponges have the greatest influence on the dynamics of the Antarctic benthos .
3 Presence of habitat complexity, however, dampened the strength of this temperature effect on the abundance of macroinvertebrates in the benthos .
4 The great majority of algae, however, grow like land-plants attached to a substratum, and to these the term benthos is now generally applied.
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