any particulate matter suspended in bodies of water, esp plankton or other organic matter
Examples of 'seston' in a sentence
seston
Biodeposition varied seasonally with seston quality and quantity.
Jade Irisarri 2014, 'Assessing the nutritional value of mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) biodepositsas a possible food source for deposit-feeding holothurians in Integrated Multi-TrophicAquaculture', Frontiers in Marine Sciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fmars.2014.02.00119/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Turbidity can reflect the effects of insoluble substances that contain bait and seston on water.
Licai Zhang, Yaoguang Wei, Yingyi Chen, Daoliang Li, Lihua Zeng 2014, 'Research of Intelligent Turbidity Sensor', Sensors & Transducershttp://www.sensorsportal.com/HTML/DIGEST/march_2014/Special_issue/P_SI_547.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
These results show that the seston size fractions tested produce different population growth rates and isotopic signatures in cladocerans.
Pedro Caraballo, Andrés Felipe Sanchez-Caraballo, Bruce Forsberg, Rosseval Leite 2011, 'Crescimento populacional e análise isotópica de Diaphanosoma spinolosum e Ceriodaphniacornuta (Crustacea: Cladocera), alimentadas com diferentes frações de seston natural= Population growth and stable isotope analyses of Diaphanosoma spinolosum and Ceriodaphniacornuta (Crustacea: Cladocera) fed with different seston size fractions', Acta Scientiarum : Biological Scienceshttp://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciBiolSci/article/view/7260/7260. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Apparent nutrient deficiencies observed in the water column were not as remarkable in the elemental composition of seston.
Y. COBAN-YILDIZ, S. TUGRUL, D. EDIGER, A. YILMAZ, C. POLAT 2000, 'A comparative study on the abundance and elemental composition of POM in three interconnectedbasins: the Black, the Marmara and the Mediterranean Seas', Mediterranean Marine Sciencehttps://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/hcmr-med-mar-sc/article/view/11988. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Natural seston was collected every second day and added as food source using a peristalticpump.
Øystein eLeiknes, Siv Anina Etter, Nils Egil Tokle, Maria eBergvik, Olav eVadstein,Yngvar eOlsen 2016, 'The effect of essential fatty acids for the somatic growth in nauplii of Calanus finmarchicus',Frontiers in Marine Sciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmars.2016.00033/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Higher levels of natural seston biomass appeared to improve adult mussel life history performance in low calcium water.
Clinton J. Davis, Emma K. Ruhmann, Kumud Acharya, Sudeep Chandra, Christopher L. Jerde 2015, 'Successful survival, growth, and reproductive potential of quagga mussels in low calciumlake water: is there uncertainty of establishment risk?', PeerJhttps://peerj.com/articles/1276.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
There was evidence for differential resource allocation, as insect partitioned periphyton and sediment (but also seston) elements for tissue synthesis.
Elizabeth Yohannes, Karl-Otto Rothhaupt 2018, 'Dietary nutrient allocation to somatic tissue synthesis in emerging subimago freshwatermayfly Ephemera danica', BMC Ecologyhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12898-018-0213-9. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The results showed that the seston removal effects did not differ significantly among these three aquaculture methods.
Long Wang, Lin Ma, Jian Sun, Yi Zhang, Qiaohong Zhou, Zhenbin Wu, Feng He 2018, 'Effects of different aquaculture methods for introduced bivalves (Hyriopsis cumingii)on seston removal and phosphorus balance at the water–sediment interface', Journal of Freshwater Ecologyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02705060.2018.1429328. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)