| This may have made it the most easily accessible prey for predators in the nekton, such as fishes. |
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| On average, collections were made every 3-4 d for phytoplankton and zoo-plankton, 7 d for benthos, and 10-14 d for nekton. |
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| Plants and animals arrive as plankton, nekton, fouling organisms, and benthos. |
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| Phytoplankton reproduce rapidly in these conditions, and grazing zooplankton also multiply and provide abundant food supplies for nekton. |
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| Herbivorous nekton are not very common, although a few nearshore and shallow-water species subsist by grazing on plants. |
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| Animals that are strong swimmers and live in open water and middle layers of the water are called nekton. |
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| The migrations of plankton and nekton throughout the water column in many parts of the world are well described. |
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| Animals that are strong swimmers are called nekton and live in the open water and middle layers. |
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| It is the region inhabited by plankton, which are minute organisms that drift or float at various depths in the water, and by nekton, which are free-swimming organisms. |
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| The nekton, with its greater mobility, moves freely through the water column and back and forth from the nearshore zone to deeper waters. |
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| Molluscan nekton include the squids and octopods. |
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| Squid are also economically valuable nekton. |
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| To review the organisms considered to be plankton, nekton, and benthos. |
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| This is in contrast to nekton organisms, such as fish, squid and marine mammals, which can swim against the ambient flow and control their position in the environment. |
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| Nekton are actively swimming animals that move independently of the currents, while benthos consist of fixed or mobile plants and animals that live on or near the bottom or in the bottom sediments. |
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| Even the Nekton is, in addition to intensive exploitation, damaged by the radiation. |
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| On 5 October 1959, Trieste departed San Diego for Guam aboard the freighter Santa Maria to participate in Project Nekton, a series of very deep dives in the Mariana Trench. |
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