Meiobenthos

Translation of "meiobenthos" into Russian

meiobenthos

Noun

meiobenthos

Technical biological term referring collectively to small benthic organisms; typically treated as an uncountable mass noun.

мейобентос

биология, экология

The structure of the meiobenthos reflects sediment characteristics.

Структура мейобентоса отражает характеристики осадка.

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мейо-бентос

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meiobenthos

Noun

Ecology. The community of very small benthic invertebrates (about 32–1000 μm in size) that live on or within seabed or freshwater sediments, intermediate in size between microbenthos and macrobenthos.

Nematodes and harpacticoid copepods are often the dominant components of the meiobenthos in sandy sediments.

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