Sentence examples for pelagic waters from inspiring English sources

Strombidium sulcatum Claparède & Lachmann, 1859 (Fig. 1 A F) is an oligotrich ciliate that plays an important role in food webs and energy flow in marine pelagic waters (Bernard & Rassoulzadegan, 1990, Montagnes et al., 1990).

The bathymetric descriptors included (1) median depth, (2) depth coefficient of variation, (3) contour index, and shortest distance to (4) the mainland, (5) the continental shelf-break (200-m isobath), (6) the continental slope (1000-m isobath), and (7) pelagic waters (3000-m isobath).

Except in the eastern Pacific, dolphins in warmer, shallower waters tend to be smaller than those in cooler, pelagic waters.

The distribution of the pelagic stingray extends nearly worldwide in tropical to warm-temperate pelagic waters, between the latitudes of 52°N and 50°S.

A generalist apex predator, the dusky shark can be found from the coast to the outer continental shelf and adjacent pelagic waters, and has been recorded from a depth of 400 m (1,300 ft).

Spiridonov et al. [52] described a bimodal vertical distribution of calanoid copepods in pelagic waters of the Weddell Sea at the onset of winter.

A comparison of the foraging niches of two related species that breed on Campbell Island, the Campbell albatross and the grey-headed albatross, showed the Campbell albatross primarily fed over the Campbell Plateau whereas the grey-headed albatross fed in more pelagic, oceanic waters.

These observations indicate a new ecological niche for many novel 'non-extreme' environmental Archaea in the pelagic water of a boreal forest lake.

The deep sea pelagic (water column) zone is the scene of the largest animal migration on Earth -- the daily vertical migration of zooplankton, bioluminescent "lantern fish," and other organisms which nightly ascend as much as 1 kilometer to feed, descending again at daybreak.

To test these hypotheses, datasets were generated from pelagic water samples taken from the L4 station during the day and night at 3 sampling time points in 2008: January, April and August, representing winter, spring and summer.

Spadefish coloration features vertical dark brown/black barring on a silver/white background, a common 'dark/light adjacency' strategy among reef fishes to maximize contrast against both pelagic water and optically complex reef backgrounds (Marshall et al., 2006).