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The Comparative Roles of Suspension-Feeders in Ecosystems: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Comparative Roles of Suspension-F

The Comparative Roles of Suspension-Feeders in Ecosystems: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Comparative Roles of Suspension-F

Dame, Richard F.
Olenin, Sergej

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Series: NATO Science Series: IV:, Book 47

BiologyEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 1402030290
ISBN13: 9781402030291
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: May 10 2005
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Animals are a major link between the water column (pelagic) and the bottom (benthic) habitats in most shallow systems. This coupling is dominated by active processes such as suspension-feeding in which the organism actively uses energy to pump water that is then filtered to remove suspended particles that are consumed while undigested remains are deposited on the bottom. As a result of this feeding on and metabolism of particles, the animals excrete dissolved inorganic and organic waste back into the water column, and thus, become major components in the cycling and feedback of essential elements. With relatively high weight specific filtration rates of 1-- 10 liters/hour/gram dry tissue and a propensity to form large aggregated populations (beds, reefs, schools and swarms), these organisms can play an important role in regulating water column processes

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