Sentence examples for deep habitats from inspiring English sources

In the San Juan Archipelago, Washington, deep habitats (e.g. > 90 m) contain abundant, senescent kelp detritus that presumably is colonized by microbes as it sinks.

A hierarchical, nested sampling design measured spatial variation among zones (2 20 km apart), sites within zones (1 km apart) and replicate gillnets at each site (50 100 m apart), in shallow and deep habitats.

Interestingly, our data suggests that the deep habitats of the Gulf of Cadiz area harbors the highest diversity, with four ESUs observed out of four samples (Fig. 1).

Specific symbiont types were found in association with S. hystrix colonies from either shallow ('Back Reef' and 'Upper Slope') or deep habitats ('Deep Slope').

Specialization in extremely shallow or deep habitats is atypical for Acropora species hence our data provide support for the hypothesis that hybrid species may exploit atypical (or non-parental) niches.

These early descriptions of deep corals collected on the Blake Plateau, along with recent concern for damage to fragile deep-coral habitats by fishing, have led to recent exploration of deep coral banks and other deep habitats in the SAB-Florida East Coast area (see NOAA Ocean Exploration, below).

These results suggest that the shallow-water margin of Lake Alexandrina is a coevolutionary hot spot, while the deep habitat is a coevolutionary cold spot.

All colonies found in either shallow or deep areas were classified as deep habitat or shallow habitat.

Fifteen of them were residents and 30 were introduced from either the shallow or the deep habitat, for a total of 90 colonies in the experiment.

That may also be true in their deeper habitats, even if they get most of their food from sinking corpses.

Patterns varied with depth and incline with algal groups being more positively associated with shallow than deeper habitats.