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