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Detritus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In biology, detritus is non-living particulate organic material (as opposed to dissolved organic material). It typically includes the bodies or fragments of dead organisms as well as fecal material....
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Smaller filter feeders, such as the Honeycomb Barnacle, Chamaesipho tasmanica, and the Six-plated Barnacle, Chthamalus antennatus, can occur quite high on the shore, only covered by the tide for a few hours each day. ... Deposit Feeders: These are the Detritus feeders.
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This ooze, called detritus, consists of bacteria and the remains of finely chopped up algae and decaying fragments of animals, as well as countless numbers of stranded microscopic, one-celled green plants which are ... Some detritus feeders are the nereid worms and the heart urchin which prefer more calm habitats.
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A description of detritus feeders in the marine ecosystem in ocean waters off of Australia. Site maintained by the Marine Education Society of Australia. ... This essay explores the role of detritus and detritus feeders found in Prince William Sound in Lotka-Volterra-type equations. Site maintained by the University of...
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Description of detritus (noun: plural: detritus) rubbish produced when ... At the other end of the scale there are the particle feeders , static animals such as burrowing marine worms and other bottom-dwelling aquatic creatures that simply sit and sift the plentiful detritus that sinks to the bed of seas and lakes.
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Use detritus in a Sentence ... See web results for detritus ... Deposit feeders...
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The water was smooth and brown, with detritus swirling in the eddies from the increasing current. ... The loose detritus of thought, washed down to us through long ages. ... Description of Detritus Fee...
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