Meanings
adjectivearchivorous (not comparable)
- not comparableIngesting archaeans (as the archivores do).
[…] and predators, with the bacterivorous/archivorous trophic guild referring to deposit feeders […] Bacterivorous/archivorous taxa usually feature depleted δ 15 N signatures, close to those of […]
2016, M Portail, K Olu, SF Dubois, et al., “Food-web complexity in Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vents and cold seeps”, in PloS one
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