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Ocean Ecosystems: Soft Bottoms. Where water movements are not strong enough to wash them away, sediments coat much of the benthic environment. Soft bottoms are common along coasts, along continental margins, and in the deep sea.
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23 Οκτ 2024 · Within these ecosystems, benthic organisms play crucial roles in marine soft bottoms, such as bioturbation, secondary production, organic matter fragmentation and sediment stabilization (e.g. ). These organisms influence the ecosystem through the functions they perform, affecting productivity rates, nutrient fluxes and carbon storage [ 8 , 24 ...
17 Ιουλ 2020 · These soft sediment environments are complex ecosystems containing strong physical gradients that affect the distribution of species and physico-chemical conditions. These features interact...
A 'Soft-Bottom Environment' is defined as a substrate characterized by muddy or sandy composition where species like coral and foraminifers prefer to dwell and rest freely. This type of environment is influenced by the nature of the substrate, leading to specific species distributions.
25 Φεβ 2024 · Our results suggest that adding hard substrates to a subtidal soft-sediment system can be a valuable tool for recovering habitat heterogeneity and enhancing ecosystem functioning, but that the type of substrate used is less important.
1 Ιαν 2022 · Soft bottom benthic communities are among the most important ecosystem components, since they affect biogeochemical cycling and they support the ecosystem’s integrity and health. Undoubtedly, they have earned their place in the current legislation on protection and conservation of biodiversity.
5 Ιουν 2020 · For instance, on soft-bottom coastal shelves, hydrodynamic forces from winds and tidal currents can cause nested multiscale morphological features ranging from metre-scale (mega)ripples, to sand waves and kilometre-scale linear sandbanks.
