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Deep muddy grounds are the biggest marine habitats in terms of surface area. They cover 90% of the oceans’ floors and start where steep rocky habitats level off to flat sea bottoms – at depths where water motion is so minimal that the finest sediments remain on the ground and form thick mud layers over the course of time. In the Mediterranean, depending on the exposition of the coast, the emergence of such habitats is possible from a water depth of about 20 m.
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Glaeser, G., Abed-Navandi, D. (2023). Habitat: Muddy Grounds. In: Ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22334-1_7
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