Filter feeders are aquatic animals that acquire nutrients by feeding on organic matters, food particles or smaller organisms (bacteria, microalgae and...
28 KB (3,336 words) - 01:16, 12 August 2024
Filtration (redirect from Filter (chemistry))
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...
24 KB (3,094 words) - 19:13, 13 August 2024
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...
8 KB (911 words) - 16:30, 29 August 2024
Look up Filter, filter, filtering, or filters in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Filter, filtering, filters or filtration may also refer to: Filter (higher-order...
6 KB (802 words) - 15:31, 2 June 2024
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...
64 KB (6,929 words) - 14:33, 1 September 2024
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...
40 KB (4,154 words) - 08:39, 22 July 2024
List of feeding behaviours (redirect from Food-mass feeder)
plants, soils, and insects to treat and prevent disease. An opportunistic feeder sustains itself from a number of different food sources, because the species...
9 KB (902 words) - 14:48, 6 July 2024
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...
12 KB (1,281 words) - 04:33, 27 August 2024
Detritivore (redirect from Deposit feeder)
Detritivores (also known as detrivores, detritophages, detritus feeders or detritus eaters) are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus...
10 KB (980 words) - 18:23, 19 July 2024
biota at the end-Ediacaran extinction, who were mostly bottom-dwelling filter feeders and grazers, has been hypothetized to be partly caused by increased...
20 KB (2,004 words) - 04:38, 27 August 2024