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Surveying Intriguing Bottom Dwellers to Reveal Ecosystem Health - FISHBIO
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Surveying Intriguing Bottom Dwellers to Reveal Ecosystem Health - FISHBIO
FISHBIO biologists often survey rivers and creeks for creatures of the finned variety, but for a handful of projects, we direct our nets towards the creepy crawlies of the benthos. Found on riverbottom substrates, tiny larval insects, mollusks, and worms are known as benthic macroinvertebrates, or BMIs. These small, backboneless aquatic organisms are an important link in the aquatic food web as a vital food source for fish, birds, and larger aqua
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