Filter feeders are aquatic animals that acquire nutrients by feeding on organic matters, food particles or smaller organisms (bacteria, microalgae and...

largest fishes, and the baleen whales, all of which are described as filter feeders. Filtration is used to separate particles and fluid in a suspension...

detritus is known as marine snow. Bottom feeders may gather detritus manually, as some crab species do; or filter microparticles out of the water using suspension...

Look up Filter, filter, filtering, or filters in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Filter, filtering, filters or filtration may also refer to: Filter (higher-order...

of free-swimming sharks. Whale sharks have very large mouths and are filter feeders, which is a feeding mode that occurs in only two other sharks, the megamouth...

migratory species found in all the world's temperate oceans. A slow-moving filter feeder, its common name derives from its habit of feeding at the surface, appearing...

plants, soils, and insects to treat and prevent disease. An opportunistic feeder sustains itself from a number of different food sources, because the species...

Dinophysis norvegica. The study also found T. vagina to be an indiscriminate feeder over a broad size spectrum. Waste from T. vagina is densely packed, sinks...

Detritivores (also known as detrivores, detritophages, detritus feeders or detritus eaters) are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus...

biota at the end-Ediacaran extinction, who were mostly bottom-dwelling filter feeders and grazers, has been hypothetized to be partly caused by increased...