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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or inhabiting the uppermost layer of the water column of the open ocean, into which enough sunlight enters for photosynthesis to take place, extending in clear waters to a depth of about 200 meters (656 feet).
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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or inhabiting the
water from thesurface of thesea down to 200metres .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Functioning of pelagic communities in the oceanic epipelagic layer.
Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea) 2009
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Interannual changes in fish communities in upper epipelagic layer in the western Bering Sea and Pacific waters off Kamchatka.
Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea) 2009
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Composition, structure and dynamics of the epipelagic nekton communities.
Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea) 2009
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It has relatively low diversity but makes an important contribution to the total African, and global, fish catch, with epipelagic species including the South African pilchard and the Cape anchovy.
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Deep sea adaptation of epipelagic chaetognatha Sagitta elegans in the Japan Sea.
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Brodeur R.D., and D.M. Ware, 1995. interdecadal variability in distribution and catch rates of epipelagic nekton in the Northeast Pacific Ocean.
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Most of the marine life familiar to us at the surface inhabits the epipelagic zone, the sunlit realm, stretching down to about 600 feet.
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Most of the marine life familiar to us at the surface inhabits the epipelagic zone, the sunlit realm, stretching down to about 600 feet.
MotherJones.com 2010
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The epipelagic fish community of Beaufort Sea coastal waters, Alaska.
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These characteristics apply to the main prey of guano birds, the Peruvian anchovy, an extremely abundant epipelagic fish, patchily distributed in space and in time
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Henri Weimerskirch et al. 2010
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