Sentence examples for suspension feeding from inspiring English sources

Petersen, J. K. Ascidian suspension feeding.

What are the upper and lower body size limits for whales that practice this type of suspension feeding strategy?

Benthic deposit feeding clams together with suspension feeding mussels dominate in many temperate intertidal ecosystems including the Baltic Sea basin26.

The suspension feeding mode of epifaunal peracarids is possibly favoured by the high filtration rate of M. sabatieri which is large sized and has an extensive branchial surface.

Barite, an important component of offshore drilling muds, is shown to adversely affect the ctenidia of the suspension feeding bivalve, Cerastoderma edule and the deposit feeder, Macoma balthica.

In doing so we demonstrate how the addition of a novel predator can trigger a regime shift through strong top-down control of suspension feeding invertebrates, modulating pelagic nutrient availability and increasing the magnitude and frequency of phytoplankton blooms.

Absorption efficiencies measured for D. arietina are the first reported for a suspension-feeding polychaete.

This study investigated the indirect effects of an epibenthic suspension-feeding bivalve (Atrina zelandica) on ammonium and nitrate nitrite effluxes from the sediment, and oxygen consumption in the overlying waters, under dark conditions, at two sites with different environmental characteristics.

Such feeding behavior is considered ram suspension-feeding.

Pterobranchia are a small, specialised group of marine suspension-feeding animals.

The assemblage, while less diverse than the Ediacara- or Nama-types, resembles Carboniferous suspension-feeding communities, which may suggest filter feeding  – by most interpretations, the assemblage is found in water too deep for photosynthesis.