Size Distribution of the Deep-Sea Meiobenthic Organisms

V. B. Tseitlin

Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Received May 11, 2000

Abstract—Based on the statistical processing of the deep-sea meiobenthos samples collected in the Northeast
Atlantic and the Arctic basin, the dependence of the nematode density n on their body volumes V was studied.
This dependence was evaluated as n = n₀V¹, where n₀ is a constant. From here it follows that the biomass values
are the same in equal logarithmic intervals of the organism volume (or body mass) values. A similar regularity
was established earlier for pelagic and soil organisms.

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