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Can you tell more about it? I am researching it and want to know more. --Sam Wang 21:55, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

the limnetic, littoral, profundal, and benthic zones are part of a lakes life zones in most Ap text books.

I agree --A concerned student —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.235.201.27 (talk) 17:00, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also a student trying to do research on it, and not having much luck finding sources. -- 74.47.146.128 (talk) 23:23, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'd imagine that there is a significant amount of precipitating organic matter/feces at that depth. We really need a section dedicated to it, citing some statistics about the downward mass flux (mass per area per time) and factors that might affect it (storms, algae blooms, schools of organisms, etc.). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.202.0.41 (talk) 02:09, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Added a section about nutrient flux. Factors are really going to depend on the depth, but overall they will be uniform when you get into discussing marine snow because it is decomposed on the way down and eaten by any larger organisms in the water column, as well as smaller ones like salps and crustaceans. When it's relatively shallow it's just going to be large detritus. Esox id^t•contribs 15:41, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello. I was just going through this article and discovered the link provided for citation number 14 (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, news item March 2005 Archived September 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine) was not working. When I clicked on the link it sent me to a page that displayed an error message of "page not found". Just wanted to let everyone know in case they have a working link they can provide. -QMcC (talk) 05:41, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Description is confusing

The Description for unknown reasons is defined differently from the simple and better way it is already defined in the intro. It would make sense to just leave it out. It's not necessary. Neither Continental shelf or Hadal zone have a Description. I'd prefer if an expert who is watching this page made this decision because some of the Description may need to be reincorporated elsewhere on the page. SEKluth (talk) 07:10, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Concur with User:SEKluth. The lede section seems to be correct, whereas the statement "begins at the shore line" is definitely wrong: it's a deep part of the ocean (or inland body of fresh water).^[1] I haven't got the expertise necessary or else I would have a go myself. Tagged.--

Less definitely wrong: other references than the one I quote ("The benthic zone is generally between 1,000 and 4,000 m depth") suggest that the key aspect of benthic is: that it's next to the bottom. Thus it can be shallower, approaching the shore. OED has "flora and fauna at or near the bottom of the sea". Expert input still needed, please, if only for clarification. AntientNestor (talk) 08:42, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Encyclopedia of Geography Terms, Themes, and Concepts. The benthic zone is generally between 1,000 and 4,000 m depth

Added a different ref which contradicts the one I first quoted (and only came out a couple of weeks ago) and so removed the {{Misleading|section}} tag. I'm happy to leave it at that—even happier if someone who knows what they're talking about finds the time to look this over.--AntientNestor (talk) 15:27, 14 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Encyclopedia of Geography Terms, Themes, and Concepts. The benthic zone is generally between 1,000 and 4,000 m depth

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