Bioirrigation

Bioirrigation

Bioirrigation, or simply irrigation, refers to the process of benthic organisms flushing their burrows with overlying seawater. The exchange of dissolved substances between the porewater and overlying seawater that results is an important process in the context of the biogeochemistry of the oceans.


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