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Abyssal deposit feeders are secondary consumers of detritus and rely on nutrition derived from microbial communities in their guts
Published 2021-06-01“…We used compound-specific stable isotope ratios of amino acids (CSIA-AA) to estimate the trophic position of three abundant species of deposit feeders collected from the abyssal plain of the Northeast Pacific (Station M; ~ 4000 m depth), and compared it to the trophic position of their gut contents and the surrounding sediments. …”
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