How to Use benthic in a Sentence
benthic
adjective
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The benthic forams were the canary in the coal mine, and so too may be the sharks 19 million years ago, Sibert says.
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Connor Lynch,
Discover Magazine,
15 Nov. 2021
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The current swept along crabs and shrimp and maybe a few marine worms and other benthic life unable to fight the flow.
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Shannon Tompkins,
Houston Chronicle,
14 Apr. 2018
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But benthic dwellers are difficult to haul up to the surface alive, let alone chipper.
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Sabrina Imbler,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2020
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The overpopulation theory Before their journey south, gray whales feed on sea bugs at the bottom of the ocean in what is known as the benthic zone.
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Daniel Wolfe,
Quartz,
20 July 2019
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Fuchs knew benthic species tend to release their tiny larvae when the water warms to a certain temperature.
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Erik Stokstad,
Science | AAAS,
7 Sep. 2020
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Warmer temperatures and retreating ice sheets harm benthic habitats and the creatures within (PDF) that the gray whales eat.
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Daniel Wolfe,
Quartz,
20 July 2019
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Pelagic species had shifted poleward in the northern hemisphere more than benthic.
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Disha Shetty,
Forbes,
6 Apr. 2021
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Monk seals dine on nearly the entire buffet of foods offered in the mid-Pacific Ocean, from octopus to eel to lobster to benthic fish, any of which could be infected.
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Kim Steutermann Rogers,
Smithsonian,
9 July 2018
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There are so many questions about the pelagic [water-dwelling] and benthic [seafloor-dwelling] life-forms: their adaptations to darkness, great pressures, and low temperatures.
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Jennifer Barone,
Discover Magazine,
1 Feb. 2013
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But the pair were also more than happy to pan through the benthic underside of Hollywood, trolling Craigslist for walk-ons who could provide the unsteady, amateurish tone the show relied on in a truly fluent way.
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Luke Winkie,
Vulture,
3 Aug. 2021
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Trawled sediments also had up to 52% lower organic matter content, a measure of fertility and the availability of food for benthic species.
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Christie Wilcox,
Discover Magazine,
30 May 2014
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Since their usual food source, various benthic prey, was available for the birds at the time, Will cited the potential for another unknown factor that was preventing murres specifically from catching their prey.
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Davis Hovey,
Anchorage Daily News,
31 Aug. 2021
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These farms also provide critical shading that results in a cooling effect on the benthic communities below.
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Bill Frist,
Forbes,
9 June 2022
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Indicators include the team’s biodiversity surveys of dragonfly larvae and other benthic macroinvertebrates sensitive to water quality.
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Dustin Renwick,
National Geographic,
25 Apr. 2019
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Many benthic animals overcome these limitations using legged locomotion and have different hydrodynamic profiles dictated by different body morphologies.
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IEEE Spectrum,
15 Nov. 2019
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