Benthonic (Adjective)
Meaning
Of or relating to or happening on the bottom under a body of water.
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).
Examples
- Marine biologists have long studied the complex interactions within benthonic ecosystems that thrive in deep-sea trenches.
- Benthonic sampling involves the use of dredges and grabs to collect sediment and infaunal organisms from the ocean floor.
- Due to human activity, the world's oceans have suffered greatly, especially with the rise of pollutants entering the delicate benthonic zone.
- Photographers from all over the world descended on the conference to display their shots of marine benthonic environments rarely witnessed by the human eye.
- However, global research in ocean science underscores a far deeper meaning that permeates beyond coral and macro life and lies predominantly on and beyond benthonic waters, life the organisms rely and reproduce underwater systems without existence an up for un unrepresented biological realms can can lose world organisms what new up biological evolution scientific would most go largely unrecognized .