benthic

• - Increase stream sedimentation and the silting of stream bottoms, causing a decline in water quality and the impairment of life cycles and spawning processes of aquatic life from benthic organisms to large fish which in turn causes a depletion of the sport and commercial fisheries —  The Valley Advocate: News
• They share a unique body plan with a single polarity axis (the oral-aboral axis) but exhibit various life cycles, comprising a pelagic (polyp) or a benthic form (medusa) or both alternating. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
• The impact of changing climate on phenology, productivity, and benthic-pelagic coupling in Narragansett Bay; Nixon et al.; Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 82 (2009) … The traditional winter-spring bloom has decreased or, in many years, disappeared. —  RealClimate
• The expansion also includes marine plants, the ability to build tanks, animal shows, minigames to teach some of your marine animals behaviors, and 4 new aquatic biomes (reef, coastal, pelagic, and benthic), and new scenarios and challenges. —  Mininova
• SOUTHAMPTON, UK -- In October, the hydraulic benthic interactive sampler HyBIS maintained by the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) made ten dives over the Casablanca Seamount, a four-kilometre high seamount located some 300 miles west of Morocco. —  UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World

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