Agrotermos

Preferred term

maerl beds

These are benthic marine communities that consist of coralline (calcareous) algae that form extensive beds on the seabed. Beds of maerl in coarse clean sediments of gravels and clean sands, which occur either on the open coast or in tide-swept channels of marine inlets (the latter often stony). In fully marine conditions the dominant maerl is typically Phymatolithon calcareum, whilst under variable salinity conditions in some sealochs beds of Lithothamnion glaciale may develop.

physiographic features

Created
2024-02-26T12:13:01
void:inDataset
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/void.ttl#Agrovoc
Notation
1544f0be
maërl beds

French

Created

2024-02-26T12:07:30

Last modified

2024-02-26T12:14:13

void:inDataset

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/void.ttl#Agrovoc

Notation

cf3b5332

fond de maërl

Spanish

Created

2024-02-26T12:07:06

void:inDataset

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/void.ttl#Agrovoc

Notation

cf3b5332

Fondo de maerl

URI

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_cf3b5332

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