Macrofaunal ecology of sedimented hydrothermal vents in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica

Sedimented hydrothermal vents, where hot, mineral-rich water flows through sediment, are poorly understood globally, both in their distribution and the ecology of individual vent fields. We explored macrofaunal community ecology at a sediment-hosted hydrothermal vent in the Southern Ocean. This is t...

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Main Authors: James Benjamin Bell, Clare eWoulds, Lee E Brown, Christopher James Sweeting, William David Kenneth Reid, Crispin T S Little, Adrian Guy Glover
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmars.2016.00032/full