Introduction to Marine Biology 4th Edition by George Karleskint,Richard Turner,James Small

Exercise 22

In soft-bottom communities, suspension feeders and deposit feeders are usually not found in the same areas because
a. they compete with each other for food
b. they compete with each other for space
c. deposit feeders prey on suspension feeders
d. the suspended silt in regions inhabited by deposit feeders clogs the feeding structures of suspension feeders
e. the type of sediments inhabited by deposit feeders will not support suspension feeders