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epifauna

the part of the BENTHOS living on the mud surface.
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A distance-based permutational multivariate analysis of variance (PERMANOVA) was performed to determine the effects of chronic acidification regime and episodic exposure treatment on patterns in oyster-associated epifaunal communities (Anderson 2001).
EFFECTS OF ESTUARINE ACIDIFICATION ON AN OYSTER-ASSOCIATED COMMUNITY IN NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA
The physical disturbance caused by towing gears effect the benthic ecosystem by reducing or changing the abundance and distribution patterns of both infaunal and epifaunal communities.
DIP SURUTME AGLARININ BENTIK MAKROFAUNA UZERINDEKI ETKILERI: MARMARA VE KARADENIZ'DEKI GUNCEL DURUM
The benthic foraminiferal assemblages are diverse (average 90 species), with similar proportions of infaunal and epifaunal taxa.
Fossil associations from the middle and upper Eocene strata of the Pamplona basin and surrounding areas (Navarre, western Pyrenees)
Studies in which bottom grabs were used to sample organisms in unconsolidated sediments have revealed a measurable impact from trawling on an infaunal community in the North Sea from a single pass of a beam trawl, even in an environment that had been trawled heavily for decades (Reiss et ah, 2009), but in a study in South Africa, no measurable impacts of additional trawling to the epifaunal community in a continuously trawled area (Atkinson et ah, 2011).
Ecological effects of bottom trawling on the structural attributes of fish habitat in unconsolidated sediments along the central California outer continental shelf
Nutrient impacts on epifaunal density and species composition in a subtropical seagrass bed.
Spatiotemporal variability in the eelgrass Zostera marina L. in the north-eastern Baltic Sea: canopy structure and associated macrophyte and invertebrate communities
Mud crabs (Xanthidae) in Chesapeake Bay: claw characteristics and predation on epifaunal bivalves.
Relative growth of Acantholobulus schmitti (Rathbun, 1930) (Crustacea, Brachyura, Panopeidae) at Guaratuba Bay, southern Brazil/Crescimento relativo de Acantholobulus schmitti (Rathbun, 1930) (Crustacea, Brachyura, Panopeidae) na Baia de Guaratuba, sul do Brasil
Bingham BL (1992) Life histories in an epifaunal community: coupling of adult and larval processes.
Quantitative analisys of fouling diversity associated with roots of Rhizophora mangle L. in La Restinga Lagoon National Park/Cuantificacion de la diversidad de especies incrustantes asociadas a las raices de Rhizophora mangle L. en el Parque Nacional Laguna de la Restinga/Quantificacao da diversidade de especies incrustantes associadas as raizes de Rhizophora mangle L. no Parque Nacional Laguna de la Restinga
epifaunal benthic foraminifera from the Arctic Ocean, found that the great majority of living benthic species occurred in the upper 2 cm of sediment.
Response of Recent benthic foraminiferal assemblages to contrasting environments in Baffin Bay and the northern Labrador Sea, Northwest Atlantic
Scales of life range across microbial, meiofaunal, mesofaunal, maerofaunal, and megafaunal; modes of life include planktonic, pelagic, nektic, benthic (motile and sessile), epifaunal, semi-infaunal, and infaunal.
Understanding Earth-ocean processes using real-time data from NEPTUNE, Canada's widely distributed sensor networks, Northeast Pacific
The lack of plugs in many specimens likewise precludes their origin as a vertically-oriented burrow or as an escape trace by an infaunal or epifaunal animal like an anemone.
Hypothesized Cambrian medusae from Saint John, New Brunswick, reinterpreted as sedimentary structures
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