Definition of sublittoral in English:
sublittoral
adjective sʌbˈlɪt(ə)r(ə)lˌsəbˈlɪdərəl
Ecology 1Living, growing, or accumulating near to or just below the shore.
- 1.1 Relating to or denoting a biogeographic zone extending (in the sea) from the average line of low tide to the edge of the continental shelf or (in a large lake) beyond the littoral zone but still well lit.
sheltered sublittoral regions
mobile species will migrate to sublittoral waters offshore
Example sentencesExamples
- The marine red alga Chondrus crispus is an abundant species along the coasts of the North Atlantic and inhabits the intertidal and upper sublittoral zones of rocky shorelines.
- The sublittoral zone extends from the low-tide line out to 200 meters.
- Miocene littoral and sublittoral deposits on the western side of the Atlantic showed the continuation of the transgression had begun in earlier times.
- In 1997, biomass of both littoral and sublittoral invertebrates in the impoundment was comparable to that of New Brunswick lakes of similar trophic status.
- Available data, though, make it unlikely that a ‘climatic crisis’ scenario would apply with equal force to species that are restricted to the sublittoral zone or to lower latitudes.
noun sʌbˈlɪt(ə)r(ə)lˌsəbˈlɪdərəl
Ecology The sublittoral zone.
Example sentencesExamples
- Bathyal is defined as pertaining to the ocean bottom between the sublittoral and abyssal zones - from depths of approximately 200 to 400 m.
- The paleoenvironments are interpreted as inner sublittoral and coastal lagoons environments with riverine and estuarine influence.
- The wildlife of the sublittoral sediment areas is less diverse than that of the rocky sublittorals but the areas have a high biomass and are important fishing areas, particularly for bottom-feeding fish.
Definition of sublittoral in US English:
sublittoral
adjectiveˌsəbˈlidərəlˌsəbˈlɪdərəl
Ecology 1(of a marine animal, plant, or deposit) living, growing, or accumulating near to or just below the shore.
- 1.1 Relating to or denoting a biogeographic zone extending (in the sea) from the average line of low tide to the edge of the continental shelf or (in a large lake) beyond the littoral zone but still well lit.
sheltered sublittoral regions
mobile species will migrate to sublittoral waters offshore
Example sentencesExamples
- Available data, though, make it unlikely that a ‘climatic crisis’ scenario would apply with equal force to species that are restricted to the sublittoral zone or to lower latitudes.
- The sublittoral zone extends from the low-tide line out to 200 meters.
- The marine red alga Chondrus crispus is an abundant species along the coasts of the North Atlantic and inhabits the intertidal and upper sublittoral zones of rocky shorelines.
- Miocene littoral and sublittoral deposits on the western side of the Atlantic showed the continuation of the transgression had begun in earlier times.
- In 1997, biomass of both littoral and sublittoral invertebrates in the impoundment was comparable to that of New Brunswick lakes of similar trophic status.
nounˌsəbˈlidərəlˌsəbˈlɪdərəl
the sublittoralEcology The sublittoral zone.
Example sentencesExamples
- The paleoenvironments are interpreted as inner sublittoral and coastal lagoons environments with riverine and estuarine influence.
- The wildlife of the sublittoral sediment areas is less diverse than that of the rocky sublittorals but the areas have a high biomass and are important fishing areas, particularly for bottom-feeding fish.
- Bathyal is defined as pertaining to the ocean bottom between the sublittoral and abyssal zones - from depths of approximately 200 to 400 m.