Sentence examples for suspension feeder from inspiring English sources
This exchange of suspension feeder species is not neutral to community structure because resident mussels and alien oysters function differently as ecosystem engineers.
Neither growth nor condition differed when organic content of the sediments was varied, which suggests that S. alba is either a suspension feeder or capable of switching modes of feeding.
Like other members of the Pectinidae family, the Antarctic scallop is a suspension feeder, extracting its nourishment from the sea water that surrounds it.
A mode of life as an epibenthic suspension feeder, occupying the intermediate feeding tier (Figure 4), is indicated by the elongate and dendritic tentacles and the contractile and flexible stolon, and in some cases a defined holdfast.
Here, we employed the following traits: body size (small, medium, large, very large), growth form (encrusting, massive, bushy, filamentous), trophic type (autotroph, suspension feeder, deposit feeder), modularity (solitary, colonial) and motility (attached), which could theoretically produce 4×4×3×2×1 = 96 functional groups.
Hard and sandy substrates are populated by suspension feeders such as sponges and pelecypods.
Lancelets are suspension feeders that extract small particles suspended in the water.
All are suspension feeders that use spines on their legs to collect food particles from the water.
All hemichordates are suspension feeders, capturing minute animals and algae as they drift by in the water.
These animals were solitary suspension feeders that grew in such great profusion that they affected bottom currents and water circulation.
