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- adjective Describing a
temperature -stratified zone that extends from below thelimnetic zone to the bottom of the body of water
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Examples
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Amphipods occur in vegetation, under rocks, on sand and burrowing deep in profundal sediments.
Crustacea 2008
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Plankton have short life spans — when they die, they fall into the deep-water part of the lake/pond, the profundal zone.
Freshwater biomes 2007
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Little light penetrates all the way through the limnetic zone into the profundal zone.
Freshwater biomes 2007
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