micronektonic

English

Etymology

From micronekton +‎ -ic or micro- +‎ nektonic.

Adjective

micronektonic (not comparable)

1. Relating to micronekton
   • 2015 November 26, “Characterizing a Foraging Hotspot for Short-Finned Pilot Whales and Blainville’s Beaked Whales Located off the West Side of Hawai‘i Island by Using Tagging and Oceanographic Data”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Each cell was spatially integrated to obtain the relative acoustic biomass or nautical area-scattering coefficients (NASC) [35 ,38 ] in m 2 nmi -2, which is used as a proxy for micronektonic organisms density, assuming that the composition of scatterers did not change significantly in space or time.