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Meanings of benthic division in English

Portuguese
divisão bentónica

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

        divisão bentónica
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        Examples for "benthos"
        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
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