food fall

noun1

1. •
   An event in which organic matter in the ocean sinks to the seafloor.

   • Klages, Michael; Muyakshin, Sergey; Soltwedel, Thomas; Arntz, Wolf (4 January 2002), “Mechanoreception, a possible mechanism for food fall detection in deep-sea scavengers”, in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, volume 49, number 1, →Bibcode, →DOI, pages 143–155: “The problem for any scavenger inhabiting the seafloor is the unpredictability both in space and time of food fall events.”
   • Klages, Michael; Vopel, Kay; Bluhm, Hartmut; brey, Thomas; Soltwedel, Thomas; Arntz, Wolf E. (4 April 2001), “Deep-sea food falls: first observation of a natural event in the Arctic Ocean”, in Polar Biology, volume 24, →DOI, pages 292–295: “We report and discuss the first observation of the processing of a natural food fall of smaller size in the deep sea.”