The holdfasts offered a sheltered refuge and housed a large number of mobile macrofauna, a community that was quite different from that on the stipes.
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Buffalo and elk are what environmentalists call the " charismatic macrofauna " of the habitat, the animals that the public will support and visit.
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The Wenlock Series offers a diverse macrofauna that includes mandibulate ( " Aquilonifer " ) and a vermiform mollusc ( " Acaenoplax " ).
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Bacteria in the sediment show this pattern as well as macrofauna ( infaunal organisms > 0.5mm ), which are dominated by agglutinating ( soft-bodied ) foraminifera and nematodes.
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Soil provides a vital habitat, primarily for microbes ( including bacteria and mesofauna ( such as microarthropods and enchytraeids ), and macrofauna ( such as earthworms, termites, and millipedes ).
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The introduction of the epibenthic sled has led to a better understanding of the diversity of meiofauna to macrofauna in the deep sea and of the phylogeny and systematics of some major invertebrate groups.
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Community-level comparisons reveal that vent, seep and organic-fall macrofauna are very distinct in terms of composition at the family level, although they share many dominant taxa among highly sulphidic habitats.
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It is designed for a minimum of disturbance of the sediment surface by bow wave effects which is important for quantitative investigations of the benthic micro-to macrofauna, geochemical processes, sampling of bottom water or sedimentology.
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At the same time that marine invertebrate macrofauna declined, these large woodlands died out and were followed by a rise in diversity of smaller herbaceous plants including Lycopodiophyta, both " Selaginellales " and " Isoetales ".
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Hewitt, J . E ., S . F . Thrush, et al . ( 2002 ) . " Integrating heterogeneity across spatial scales : interactions between Atrina zelandica and benthic macrofauna . " Marine Ecology Progress Series 239 : 115-128.
