Not exact matches
But the researchers suspect that the creatures» poop, as well as their mucus houses, could transfer microplastics from the water's surface to the
depths of the
sea (
along with nutrients such as carbon that cycle through the environment).
And the whales are beginning to feed at various
depths as well as
along the
sea floor, a shift that may have to do with changes in the population densities of their prey.
However, many of the sources
along the continental slope lie at cold
depths in which ices have formed at high pressures within
sea - floor sediments, which once trapped methane produced by microbes living there.
The
sea floor needs to have different
depths at different points of the wave so waves will peel
along their length.