Fauna associated with shallow-water methane seeps in the Laptev Sea

Background Methane seeps support unique benthic ecosystems in the deep sea existing due to chemosynthetic organic matter. In contrast, in shallow waters there is little or no effect of methane seeps on macrofauna. In the present study we focused on the recently described methane discharge area at th...

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Main Authors: Andrey A. Vedenin, Valentin N. Kokarev, Margarita V. Chikina, Alexander B. Basin, Sergey V. Galkin, Andrey V. Gebruk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2020-05-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/9018.pdf