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Meanings of benthos in English

Russian
бентосные организмы
Portuguese
bentos
Spanish
bentos
Catalan
bentos
Wikidata

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

бентосные организмы
Portuguese
divisão bentónica

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

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