epibiosis

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epi- +‎ -biosis

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epibiosis (countable and uncountable, plural epibioses)

  1. (biology) A relationship between two organisms, one of which lives or grows on the other, but is not parasitic on it
    • 2015 November 12, “Benthic Trophic Interactions in an Antarctic Shallow Water Ecosystem Affected by Recent Glacier Retreat”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      Within this size group, the epibiosis trophic strategy identified in the meiobenthic harpacticoid copepod (MT2) was present only at this site.

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