PALAIOS, Vol. 32, No. 1/2, Special issue in Memory of Professor Lukas Hottinger (January/February 2017), pp. 6-17 (12 pages) The Monte Postale section (Bolca, northern Italy), one of the most famous ...

The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean or a lake, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers. The benthic zone is the ...

Under the sea, all the way at the bottom, is what marine researchers refer to as the benthic zone. It’s the lowest layer of the ocean — of any body of water, really — including any sediment. It’s home ...

This suggests neither the pelagic nor the benthic zone provides the combination of resources required for microalgal growth. Nutrient mineralization in aggregates could bridge this apparent spatial ...