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Ecology of deposit-feeding animals in marine sediments
Lopez, G.R.; Levinton, J.S. (1987). Ecology of deposit-feeding animals in marine sediments. Quart. Rev. Biol. 62(3): 235-260
In: The Quarterly Review of Biology. Williams & Wilkins: Baltimore. ISSN 0033-5770; e-ISSN 1539-7718, more
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Keywords
    Aquatic organisms > Heterotrophic organisms > Detritus feeders
    Aquatic organisms > Marine organisms
    Aquatic sciences > Marine sciences > Ecology > Marine ecology
    Bioenergetics
    Biological phenomena > Adaptations
    Food conversion
    Sediments
    Marine/Coastal

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  • Lopez, G.R.
  • Levinton, J.S.

Abstract
    Deposit-feeding animals acquire food by swallowing large volumes of sediment. Possible food sources include organic debris and sediment-associated microbes. The relative importance of these classes of food is currently an area of active research. The idea that microbes attached to sediment and detritus particles constitute the major food source of deposit feeders is being replaced by more complex models that incorporate interactions between animals and the food sources in the sedimentary matrix. Many deposit feeders appear to require both microbial and detrital foods.

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