Sentence examples for bottom environments from inspiring English sources

Mud snails (Ilyanassa obsoleta = Nassarius obsoletus = Nassa obsoleta) deposit eggs in protective capsules on hard substrata in soft bottom environments.

Thus, they utilize several types of bottom environments.

These selection pressures are likely to promote resource polymorphism among populations that inhabit different bottom environments.

Therefore, as bottom environments vary, so will the benthic communities they support.

Differing bottom environments create lake habitats with different benthos communities, which may cause selection in benthivorous fishes.

Focusing on differences in bottom environments (rocky versus pebbly habitats), we assessed the genetic population structure and eco-morphological divergence among Sarcocheilichthys in Lake Biwa.

The open ocean, the pelagic zone, includes all marine waters throughout the globe beyond the continental shelf, as well as the benthic, or bottom, environment on the ocean floor.

As such it also is a versatile tool for assessing and monitoring the human impact on the sea bottom environment.

We're destroying basic food supplies with overfishing, we ravage the benthic (bottom) environment with steel-netted drag trawlers.

We found almost all taxa that were previously reported from the deep-sea bottom environment [11], [14].

Although the morphogenetic factors that contribute to morphological divergence remain unclear, our results suggest that the gudgeon populations in Lake Biwa show a state of resource polymorphism associated with differences in the bottom environment.