food fall

food fall (plural food falls)

1. (marine biology) An event in which organic matter in the ocean sinks to the seafloor.
   • Klages, Michael; Muyakshin, Sergey; Soltwedel, Thomas; Arntz, Wolf (January 2002), “Mechanoreception, a possible mechanism for food fall detection in deep-sea scavengers”, in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, volume 49, issue 1, →Bibcode, →DOI, pages 143–155: “The problem for any scavenger inhabiting the seafloor is the unpredictability both in space and time of food fall events.”
   • Klages, Michael; Vopel, Kay; Bluhm, Hartmut; brey, Thomas; Soltwedel, Thomas (April 2001), “Deep-sea food falls: first observation of a natural event in the Arctic Ocean”, in Polar Biology‎, volume 24, →DOI, pages 292–295: “We report and discuss the first observation of the processing of a natural food fall of smaller size in the deep sea.”

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