of, relating to, or inhabiting the lower depths of the ocean between approximately 1000 and 4000 metres
bathypelagic in American English
(ˌbæθəpəˈlædʒɪk)
adjective
Geography
pertaining to or living in the bathyal region of an ocean
Word origin
[1905–10; bathy- + pelagic]This word is first recorded in the period 1905–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Expressionism, jazz, persona, scrounge, white list
Examples of 'bathypelagic' in a sentence
bathypelagic
Our data expand the deep-sea assemblages from current bathypelagic to abyssopelagic zones.
Hongmei Jing, Yue Zhang, Yingdong Li, Wenda Zhu, Hongbin Liu 2018, 'Spatial Variability of Picoeukaryotic Communities in the Mariana Trench', Scientific Reportshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-018-33790-4. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In the mesopelagic and bathypelagic layers, only nanoplankton predation on heterotrophic prokaryotes was investigated.
Luca Zoccarato, Anna Malusà, Serena Fonda Umani 2016, 'Major contribution of prokaryotes to carbon fluxes in the pelagic microbial food websof the Mediterranean Sea', Advances in Oceanography and Limnologyhttp://pagepressjournals.org/index.php/aiol/article/view/5799. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This family includes 73 species occurring strictly on the meso- and bathypelagic zonesof the oceans.
Irene Cardoso 2013, 'On some rare Oplophoridae (Caridea, Decapoda) from the South Mid-Atlantic Ridge',Latin American Journal of Aquatic Researchhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-560X2013000200001&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Our observations demonstrate a consistent and rapid connection between deep open-sea convection and bathypelagic biological activity, as expressed by bioluminescence.
Christian Tamburini, Miquel Canals, Xavier Durrieu de Madron, Loïc Houpert, DominiqueLefèvre, Séverine Martini, Fabrizio D'Ortenzio, Anne Robert, Pierre Testor, Juan AntonioAguilar, Imen Al Samarai, Arnaud Albert, Michel André, Marco Anghinolfi, Gisela Anton,Shebli Anvar, Miguel Ardid, Ana Carolina Assis Jesus, Tri L Astraatmadja, Jean-JacquesAubert, Bruny Baret, Stéphane Basa, Vincent Bertin, Simone Biagi, Armando Bigi, CiroBigongiari, Claudio Bogazzi, Manuel Bou-Cabo, Boutayeb Bouhou, Mieke C Bouwhuis, JurgenBrunner, José Busto, Francisco Camarena, Antonio Capone, Christina Cârloganu, GiadaCarminati, John Carr, Stefano Cecchini, Ziad Charif, Philippe Charvis, Tommaso Chiarusi,Marco Circella, Rosa Coniglione, Heide Costantini, Paschal Coyle, Christian Curtil,Patrick Decowski, Ivan Dekeyser, Anne Deschamps, Corinne Donzaud, Damien Dornic, HasankiadehQ Dorosti, Doriane Drouhin, Thomas Eberl, Umberto Emanuele, Jean-Pierre Ernenwein,Stéphanie Escoffier, Paolo Fermani, Marcelino Ferri, Vincenzo Flaminio, Florian Folger,Ulf Fritsch, Jean-Luc Fuda, Salvatore Galatà, Pascal Gay, Giorgio Giacomelli, ValentinaGiordano, Juan-Pablo Gómez-González, Kay Graf, Goulven Guillard, Garadeb Halladjian,Gregory Hallewell, Hans van Haren, Joris Hartman, Aart J Heijboer, Yann Hello, JuanJose Hernández-Rey, Bjoern Herold, Jurgen Hößl, Ching-Cheng Hsu, Marteen de Jong,Matthias Kadler, Oleg Kalekin, Alexander Kappes, Uli Katz, Oksana Kavatsyuk, PaulKooijman, Claudio Kopper, Antoine Kouchner, Ingo Kreykenbohm, Vladimir Kulikovskiy,Robert Lahmann, Patrick Lamare, Giuseppina Larosa, Dario Lattuada, Gordon Lim, DomenicoLo Presti, Herbert Loehner, Sotiris Loucatos, Salvatore Mangano, Michel Marcelin,Annarita Margiotta, Juan Antonio Martinez-Mora, Athina Meli, Teresa Montaruli, LucianoMoscoso, Holger Motz, Max Neff, Emma Nuel Nezri, Dimitris Palioselitis, Gabriela EPăvălaş, Kevin Payet, Patrice Payre, Jelena Petrovic, Paolo Piattelli, Nicolas Picot-Clemente,Vlad Popa, Thierry Pradier, Eleonora Presani, Chantal Racca, Corey Reed, Giorgio Riccobene,Carsten Richardt, Roland Richter, Colas Rivière, Kathrin Roensch, Andrei Rostovtsev,Joaquin Ruiz-Rivas, Marius Rujoiu, Valerio G Russo, Francisco Salesa, Augustin Sánchez-Losa,Piera Sapienza, Friederike Schöck, Jean-Pierre Schuller, Fabian Schussler, Rezo Shanidze,Francesco Simeone, Andreas Spies, Maurizio Spurio, Jos J M Steijger, Thierry Stolarczyk,Mauro G F Taiuti, Simona Toscano, Bertrand Vallage, Véronique Van Elewyck, GiuliaVannoni, Manuela Vecchi, Pascal Vernin, Guus Wijnker, Jorn Wilms, Els de Wolf, HaroldYepes, Dmitry Zaborov, Juan De Dios Zornoza, Juan Zúñiga 2013, 'Deep-sea bioluminescence blooms after dense water formation at the ocean surface.',PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3707865?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This minimization could be accomplished by delivering dewatering discharge well below the mesopelagic/bathypelagic transition (below ~1000 m depth).
Jeffrey Drazen, Craig Smith, Kristina Gjerde, Whitlow Au, Jesse Black, Glenn Carter,Malcolm Clark, Jennifer Durden, Pierre Dutrieux, Erica Goetze, Steven Haddock, MarikoHatta, Chris Hauton, Paul Hill, Julian Koslow, Astrid Leitner, Chris Measures, AudePacini, Frank Parrish, Thomas Peacock, Jessica Perelman, Tracey Sutton, Celine Taymans,Verena Tunnicliffe, Les Watling, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Emily Young, Amanda Ziegler 2019, 'Report of the workshop Evaluating the nature of midwater mining plumes and their potentialeffects on midwater ecosystems', Research Ideas and Outcomeshttps://riojournal.com/article/33527/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Maximal shrimp standing stocks occurred in the upper bathypelagic (52–54% of total biomass) and in the mesopelagic(42–43%).
Alexander L. Vereshchaka, Anastasia A. Lunina, Tracey Sutton 2019, 'Assessing Deep-Pelagic Shrimp Biomass to 3000 m in The Atlantic Ocean and Ramificationsof Upscaled Global Biomass', Scientific Reportshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-019-42472-8. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)