The Ecology of Diatoms

They use bistle threads to hold on to those sea grass blades and so do they do that until they have a bigger shell or do they just keep building on top of it. So no they're usually right on the surface so they don't bear they don't dig or bury down in you'll find them just right there on like the benthic surface. Benthic means something at the bottom of a body of water and it comes from the greek for the deep of the sea. It was coined by the same guy who made up the word ecology ernst hackel's monism and the birth of fascist ideology. He was also what some people call a proto n

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