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Meanings of benthos in anglès

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Wikidata

Community of organisms which live on, in, or near the bottom of bodies of water.

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        portuguès
        divisão bentónica

        A region including the bottom of the sea and the littoral zones.

              divisão bentónica
              Usage of benthos in anglès
              1
              Our knowledge of the biodiversity of the Southern Ocean (SO) deep benthos is scarce.
              Pubmed
              2
              Here we show that sponges have the greatest influence on the dynamics of the Antarctic benthos.
              Pubmed
              3
              Presence of habitat complexity, however, dampened the strength of this temperature effect on the abundance of macroinvertebrates in the benthos.
              Pubmed
              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.
              The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28