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Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing IV – João Tavares & Natal Jorge (eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00081-0
Bioturbation structures of polychaetes in muddy sediments
A.S. Machado, A.C. Machado, K.N. Suzuki, I. Lima & R.T. Lopes
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
S.F. Pennafirme
Federal Fluminense University, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
ABSTRACT: Bioturbation is an ecological process driven by organisms, which transport nutrients and
gases from air/water to sediment through their galleries by the time they feed, burrow and/or construct
galleries. Species with distinct galleries could create levels of bioturbation, affecting the benthic interac-
tions. In this ...