Epifauna - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
网页Epifauna refers to small mobile organisms living on the surface of marine structures, playing crucial roles in aquatic ecosystems by contributing significantly to secondary production, food consumption, and nutrient regeneration.
From sessile to vagile: Understanding the importance of epifauna …
网页2020年4月5日 · The potential effects of artificial structures in marine communities have been mainly studied on the basis of the sessile fauna or conspicuous intertidal organisms (Browne and Chapman, 2011; Moreira et al., 2006; Moura et al., 2008).
Understanding the World of benthos: an introduction to benthology
网页2022年1月1日 · The benthic infauna is the assemblage of organisms living within the seafloor, while the benthic epifauna is those living on or attached to the seafloor. These organisms are continuously threatened by various anthropogenic activities like bottom trawl fishing, mine tailing pollution, land reclamation and conversion, destruction of coralline and ...
Benthos | Marine Ecology, Marine Ecosystems & Benthic Organisms
网页Benthos, the assemblage of organisms inhabiting the seafloor. Benthic epifauna live upon the seafloor or upon bottom objects; the so-called infauna live within the sediments of the seafloor. By far the best-studied benthos are the macrobenthos, those forms larger than 1 mm (0.04 inch), which are.
网页Epifauna, a term restricted here to small invertebrates (both mobile and sessile) that inhabit living and non-living surfaces within marine ecosystems, are a ubiquitous and pivotal component of...
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网页2021年9月22日 · The Nature and Ecological Significance of Epifaunal Communities within Marine Ecosystems. September 2021. DOI: 10.1201/9781003138846-9. In book: Oceanography and Marine Biology (pp.585-719)...
The Nature and Ecological Significance of Epifaunal Communities within
网页Epifauna, a term restricted here to small invertebrates (both mobile and sessile) that inhabit living and non-living surfaces within marine ecosystems, are a ubiquitous and pivotal component of marine food webs, supporting the flow of energy through marine ecosystems and providing a critical trophic link between benthic primary producers and ...
The BenBioDen database, a global database for meio-, macro
网页2020年6月29日 · Benthic fauna, the fauna living in (infauna) or on the seafloor (epifauna), includes size classes known as metazoan meiobenthos, metazoan macrobenthos, and megabenthos.
Ecological and Economic Importance of Benthic Communities
网页2020年8月19日 · Epibenthos (or epifauna) are the organisms that live associated with the surface of the substrate, either on solid or soft bottoms. This group of species has to deal with water movements, such as tidal currents and waves.
Habitat Primarily Structures Seagrass Epifaunal Communities …
网页2021年1月6日 · In the current study, we surveyed epifauna across the lower Chesapeake Bay (Fig. 1) and related patterns in community properties to geographic distance, habitat characteristics, resource availability, and the abiotic environment.
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