Tychoplankton (Greek, `tycho,` accident, chance) are organisms, such as free-living or attached benthic organisms and other non-planktonic organism, that are carried into the plankton through a disturbance of their benthic habitat, or by winds and currents. This can occur by direct turbulence or by disruption of the substrate and subsequent entr.....
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tychoplankton, tychoplanktont, tychoplanktonic 1. Periphytal organisms occasionally carried into the plankton by chance factors such as by a turbulence; they are also known as accidental plankton or pseudo-plankton.2. Planktonic forms, particularly algae, that become accidentally entangled among mats of vegetation near the shore.
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