Peter A. Jumars

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that vast areas of the deep sea are presently being modified by energetic flows, and the bed forms range in scale from kilometers to millimeters and are found where near bottom currents have been delineated by maxima in near bottom potential temperature.

TL;DR: Evidence of a shared resource suggests food limitation as a competitive bottleneck between the meiofaunal oligochaete and recruiting H. Jloridu juveniles and a critical stage in the life history of the deposit-feeding polychaete.

TL;DR: For example, despite newly collected field evidence suggesting that sediment transport rate overwhelms processing rates by deposit feeders in environments of both U.S. coasts (Grant 1983; Miller 1985 and in review), and despite the name “deposit feeders,” very little is known about the effects of steady sediment transport or of natural rates of deposition on the process of deposit feeding.

TL;DR: Quantitative information from this study can now be used in the design of more mechanically realistic models that capture the dynamic coupling between elastic particles and flow to study diatom–flow interactions and their effects on nutrient acquisition, encounter with grazers, aggregate formation, and settling.

TL;DR: A dimensionless “wedge” number is introduced to characterize the relative importance of work to fracture the material and extend the burrow and work to maintain body shape against the elastic restoring force of the material.