Topic summary
Benthos
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Benthic zone.
Benthos
Benthos is the community of organisms that live in the benthic zone, that is, on, in, or near the bottom of a stream, river, lake, or ocean. This community lives in or near marine or freshwater sedimentary environments, from tidal pools along the foreshore, out to the continental shelf, and then down to the abyssal depths.