“…body shape and size) and behavioural traits (habitat affinity and locomotion strategy) of the individual may also alter the behaviour of biota within the sediment layer (Mathers, Hill, et al, 2019; Omesová, Horsák, & Helešic, 2008). There are also documented substrate preferences associated with the body size / life stage of an individual with intra‐ and inter‐specific spatial segregation being observed in many amphipod species (Clinton, Mathers, Constable, Gerrard, & Wood, 2018; McGrath, Peeters, Beijer, & Scheffer, 2007). Subsurface sediments may also act as a refuge from predation pressures of larger invertebrates and vertebrates (MacNeil, Platvoet, & Dick, 2008; Mathers, Rice, et al, 2019; Starry, Wanzenböck, & Danielopol, 1998).…”