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- Pelagic_zone abstract "Any water in a sea or lake that is neither close to the bottom nor near the shore can be said to be in the pelagic zone. The word "pelagic" is derived from Greek πέλαγος (pélagos), meaning "open sea". The pelagic zone can be thought of in terms of an imaginary cylinder or water column that goes from the surface of the sea almost to the bottom. Conditions differ deeper in the water column; the pressure increases, the temperature drops and less light penetrates. Depending on the depth, the water column, rather like the Earth's atmosphere, can be divided into different layers.The pelagic zone occupies 1,330 million km3 (320 million mi3) with a mean depth of 3.68 km (2.29 mi) and maximum depth of 11 km (6.8 mi). Fish that live in the pelagic zone are called pelagic fish. Pelagic life decreases with increasing depth. It is affected by light intensity, pressure, temperature, salinity, the supply of dissolved oxygen and nutrients, and the submarine topography, which is called bathymetry. In deep water, the pelagic zone is sometimes called the open-ocean zone and can be contrasted with water that is near the coast or on the continental shelf. In other contexts, coastal water not near the bottom is still said to be in the pelagic zone.The pelagic zone can be contrasted with the benthic and demersal zones at the bottom of the sea. The benthic zone is the ecological region at the very bottom of the sea. It includes the sediment surface and some subsurface layers. Marine organisms living in this zone, such as clams and crabs, are called benthos. The demersal zone is just above the benthic zone. It can be significantly affected by the seabed and the life that lives there. Fish that live in the demersal zone are called demersal fish, which can be divided into benthic fish, which are denser than water so they can rest on the bottom, and benthopelagic fish, which swim in the water column just above the bottom. Demersal fish are also known as bottom feeders and groundfish.".
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- Pelagic_zone wikiPageExternalLink journal.pone.0016552.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageExternalLink en.
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- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Anarhichadidae.
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- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Billfish.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Bioluminescence.
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- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Category:Aquatic_biomes.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fisheries_science.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Category:Oceanography.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Cladocera.
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- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Detritus.
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- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Hydrophiidae.
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- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Macaroni_penguin.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Marine_biology.
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- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Marine_larval_ecology.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Marine_snow.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Menhaden.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Neritic_zone.
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- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Pelamis_platura.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Petrel.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Photosynthesis.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Phytoplankton.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Plankton.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Predation.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Primary_production.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Procellariid.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Procellariidae.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Procellariiform.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Procellariiformes.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Reef_fish.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Rotifer.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Sargassum.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Scotoplanes.
- Pelagic_zone wikiPageWikiLink Sea.