The photic zone (or euphotic zone, epipelagic zone, or sunlight zone) is the uppermost layer of a body of water that receives sunlight, allowing phytoplankton...
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penetrates. Above the aphotic zone is the photic zone, which consists of the euphotic zone and the disphotic zone. The euphotic zone is the layer of water in...
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an absence of a limnetic zone and the littoral zone spans the entire lake. Together, these two zones comprise the photic zone. There are two main sources...
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than the photic zone, human knowledge of the bathypelagic zone remains limited by ability to explore the deep ocean. The bathypelagic zone is characterized...
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estuaries, the neritic zone, the photic zone, and deep zones. Marine biologists divide the intertidal region into three zones (low, middle, and high), based...
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Fluorescence (section Photic zone)
organism's eyes are used to convert blue light from the photic zone or green bioluminescence in the aphotic zone into red light to aid vision. A new fluorophore...
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Ocean (section Oceanic zones)
The water column is further divided into zones based on depth and the amount of light present. The photic zone starts at the surface and is defined to...
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demersal zone is variable in depth and can be part of the photic zone where light can penetrate, and photosynthetic organisms grow, or the aphotic zone, which...
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sublittoral zone refers to the areas where sunlight reaches the ocean floor, that is, where the water is never so deep as to take it out of the photic zone. This...
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Bottom trawling Deep sea Intertidal zone Lake stratification Littoral zone Neritic zone Photic zone Profundal zone Sediment Profile Imagery Stream bed...
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