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How does a whale-fall community affect ocean sediment?

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When a whale dies, it falls to the ocean floor. Its dead body is known as whale-fall. This whale-fall provides nutrients for whale-fall community, which includes bacteria, crabs, worms and other invertebrates. Organic fragments from the whale-fall enrich the sediments nearby. Enrichment opportunists colonize the whalebone and surrounding sediment in order to feed on this organic fragments.

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A whale-fall is the carcass of a cetacean that has fallen into the Bathyal on the ocean floor. The sediment ussally becomes infested with huge populations of polychaete worms and unusal crutaceans.
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