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micronektonic

micronektonic adjective: relating to micronekton.

Adjective

micronektonic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to micronekton
    • Each cell was spatially integrated to obtain the relative acoustic biomass or nautical area-scattering coefficients (NASC) [35 ,38 ] in m 2 nmi -2, which is used as a proxy for micronektonic organisms density, assuming that the composition of scatterers did not change significantly in space or time.2015 November 26, “Characterizing a Foraging Hotspot for Short-Finned Pilot Whales and Blainville’s Beaked Whales Located off the West Side of Hawai‘i Island by Using Tagging and Oceanographic Data”...

Origin of micronektonic

From micronekton + -ic or micro- + nektonic.

Questions about micronektonic

What does micronektonic mean?
Micronektonic means relating to micronekton.
What part of speech is micronektonic?
Micronektonic is an adjective.

Words near micronektonic in the dictionary

  1. microneighborhood
  2. microneighborhoods
  3. microneighbourhood
  4. microneighbourhoods
  5. micronekton
  6. micronektonic
  7. micronemal
  8. micronematocyst
  9. micronematocysts
  10. micronematous
  11. microneme

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