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benthic

Describing the environment on the sea floor supporting bottom-dwelling plants (such as seaweeds) and animals (including corals, anemones, sponges, and shellfish).



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A special section is devoted to selecting ecological indicators based on benthic invertebrate fauna data sets.
Moreover, geochemical evidence shows that this species actively grows within the open-ocean surface waters, thus occupying both planktonic and benthic domains," he said.
In this article, we present data from grab and box core samples of sediments and infauna, underwater video surveys of benthic fauna, and general seafloor conditions four to six years after the closure of WGOM, all of which indicate that the closure has resulted in substantial recovery of some bottom habitat types.
 
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