Meanings
adjectivemicrophytobenthic (not comparable)
- not comparableRelating to the microphytobenthos.
Many ecologists have shown that different bivalve species modify sediment properties, phytoplankton, bacterial communities and microphytobenthic biomass differently which were associated with their feeding ecologies.
2015 August 12, “Trophic Dynamics of Filter Feeding Bivalves in the Yangtze Estuarine Intertidal Marsh: Stable Isotope and Fatty Acid Analyses”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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