Productivity in deep (cold water) reef communities that exist below the euphotic zone is dominated by which type of organism? ODeposit feeding invertebrates Particulate feeding by invertebrate suspension feeders Microbial breakdown of marine snow O Coral polyps that can survive due to their endosymbiotic zooxanthellae O Invertebrate grazers on coralline algae

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