Hessler and jumars (1974) revisited: Abyssal polychaete assemblages from the Atlantic and Pacific

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 225-251

  Paterson, Gordon L J ^a   Wilson, George D F ^b   Cosson, Nathalie ^c   Lamont, Peter A ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c IFREMER   (France)

^d SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031847490     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(97)00084-2     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. Abele, L.G., Walters, K., 1979. Marine benthic diversity: a critique and alternative parameters. Journal of Biogeography 6, 115-126.
2. Abrams, P.A., 1995. Monotonic or unimodal diversity-productivity gradients; what does competition theory predict. Ecology 76 (7), 2019-2027.
3. Blake, J.A., Grassle, J.F., 1994. Benthic community structure on the U.S. South Atlantic slope off the Carolinas: spatial heterogeneity in a current-dominated system. Deep-Sea Research II 41, 835-874.
4. Blake, J.A., Hilbig, B., 1994. Dense infaunal assemblages on the continental slope off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Deep-Sea Research II 41, 875-899.
5. Berger, W.H., 1989. Global maps of ocean productivity. In: Berger, W.H., Smetacek, V.S., Wefer, G. (Eds.), Productivity of the Ocean: Past and Present. Wiley, Chichester, pp. 429-455.
6. Bischoff, J.L., Piper, D.Z., Marine Geology and Oceanography of the Pacific Manganese Nodule Province. Plenum, New York, 842 pp.
7. Boucher, G., Lambshead, P.J.D., 1995. Ecological biodiversity of marine nematodes in samples from temperate, tropical and deep-sea regions. Conservation Biology 9, 1594-1604.
8. Chao, A., 1984. Non-parametric estimation of the number of classes in a population. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 11, 265-270.
9. Chardy, P., 1975. Les isopodes asellotes de la plaine abyssale Atlantique, exploitation mathématique des données. Thèse, Paris.
10. Colwell, R.K., Coddington, J.A., 1994. Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London 345, 101-118.
11. Connell, J.H., Orias, E., 1964. The ecological regulation of species diversity. American Naturalist 98, 399-414.
12. Cosson, N., 1996. Structure et diversité des peuplements benthiques profonds en résponse a des situation trophiques contrastées dans l'Océan Atalantique tropical et tempéré. Thesis, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, 360 pp.
13. Dauvin, J.-C., Kendall, M.A., Paterson, G.L.J., Gentil, F., Jirkov, I., Sheader, M., De Lange, M., 1994. An initial assessment of polychaete diversity in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Biodiversity Letters 2, 171-181.
14. Fauchald, K., Jumars, P.A., 1979. The diet of worms - study of polychaete feeding guilds. Oceanography and Marine Biology Annual Review 17, 193-284.
15. Gage, J.D., 1996. Why are there so many species in deep-sea environments. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 200, 257-286.
16. Gage, J.D., Lamont, P.A., Tyler, P.A., 1995. Deep-sea macrobenthic communities at contrasting sites off Portugal, preliminary results: I. Introduction and diversity comparisons. International Revue Gesampten. Hydrobiologie 80 (2), 235-250.
17. Gallagher, E., 1996. Compah 96: a users manual. University of Massachusetts. 37 pp. (http\\:www.es.umb.edu/edgwebp.htm).
18. Grassle, J.F., 1989. Species diversity in deep-sea communities. Trends in Evolution and Ecology 4, 12-15.
19. Grassle, J.F., 1991. Deep-sea benthic biodiversity. Bioscience 41, 464-469.
20. Grassle, J.F., Maciolek, N.J., 1992. Deep-sea species richness: regional and local diversity estimates from quantitative bottom samples. American Naturalist 139, 313-341.
21. Grassle, J.F., Morse-Porteous, L., 1987. Macrofaunal colonisation of disturbed deep-sea environments and the structure of deep-sea benthic communities. Deep-Sea Research 34A, 1911-1950.
22. Grassle, J.F., Smith, W., 1976. A similarity measure sensitive to the contribution of rare species and its use in the investigation of variation in benthic communities. Oecologia 25, 13-22.
23. Gray, J.S., 1994. Is deep-sea diversity really so high? Species diversity of the Norwegian continetal shelf. Marine Ecology - Progress Series 112, 205-209.
24. Halbach, P., Freidrich, G., von Stuckelberg, U., 1988. The Manganese Nodule Belt of the Pacific Ocean. Geological Environment, Nodule Formation and Mining Aspects. Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Stuttgart, 254 pp.
25. Hayes, S.P., 1979. Benthic current observations at DOMES sites A, B, and C in the tropical North Pacific Ocean. In: Bischoff, J.L., Piper, D.Z. (Eds.), Marine Geology and Oceanography of the Pacific Manganese Nodule Province. Plenum, New York, pp. 43-82.
26. Hayes, S.P., 1988. Bentic currents in the deep ocean. In: Halbach, P., Freidrich, G., von Stuckelberg, U. (Eds.), The Manganese Nodule Belt of the Pacific Ocean. Geological Environment, Nodule Formation and Mining Aspects. Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 90-102.
27. Hecker, B., Paul, A.Z., 1979. Abyssal community structure of the benthic infauna of the eastern equatorial Pacific: Domes A, B and C. In: Bischoff, J.L., Piper, D.Z. (Eds.), Marine Geology and Oceanography of the Pacific Manganese Nodule Province. Plenum, New York, pp. 287-308.
28. Hessler, R.R., Jumars, P.A., 1974. Abyssal community analysis from replicate box cores in the central north pacific. Deep-Sea Research 21, 185-209.
29. Hessler, R.R., Wilson, G.D.F., 1983. The origin and biogeography of malacostracan crustaceans in the deep sea. In: Sims, R.W., Price, J.H., Whalley, P.E.S. (Eds.), Systematics Association Special Publication, 23: Evolution, Time and Space: The Emergence of the Biosphere. Academic Press, London, pp. 227-254.
30. Heuser, Khripounoff, A., 1993. Variation des flux de carbone dans l'Atlantique nord. Le Courier de JGOFS France 1, 14-15.
31. Hurlbert, S.M., 1971. The nonconcept of species diversity: a critique and alternative parameters. Ecology 52, 577-586.
32. Huston, M. A. 1994. Biological Diversity. The Co-existence of Species on Changing Landscapes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 681 pp.
33. Jumars, P.A., 1975. Methods for measurement of community structure in deep-sea macrobenthos. Marine Biology 30, 245-252.
34. Jumars, P.A., 1976. Deep-sea species diversity: does it have a characteristic scale? Journal of Marine Research 34, 217-246.
35. Khripounoff, A., Desbuyéres, D., Chardy, P., 1980. Les peuplements benthiques de la faille Vema: données quantitative et bilan d'energie en milieu abyssal. Oceanologica Acta 3, 187-198.
36. Kulczynski, S., 1927. Die Pflanzenassociationen der Pieninen. Bulletin International de l'Académie Polonaise des Science et Lettres. Classe des Science Mathematique et Naturelle. Series B: Science Naturelles. 2 (Suppl.) 57-203.
37. Lambshead, P.J.D., Ferrero, T.J., Wolff, G.A., 1995. Comparison of the vertical distribution of nematodes from two contrasting abyssal sites in the NE Atlantic subject to different seasonal inputs of phytodetritus. International Revue Gesampten. Hydrobiologie 80 (2), 327-331.
38. Lambshead, P.J.D., Hodda, M., 1994. Impact of disturbance on measurements of variability in marine nematode populations. Vie et Milieu 44, 21-27.
39. Lamont, P.A., Gage, J.D., Tyler, P.A., 1995. Deep-sea macrobenthic communities at contrasting sites off Portugal, preliminary results: II spatial dispersion. International Revue Gesampten. Hydrobiologie 80 (2), 251.
40. Longhurst, A., Sathyendranath, S., Platt, T., Caverhill, C., 1995. An estimate of global primary productivity in the ocean from satellite radiometer data. Journal of Plankton Research 17, 1245-1271.
41. McAleece, N., Lambshead, P.J.D., Paterson, G.L.J., Gage, J.D., 1996. Biodiversity. A program for analyzing ecological data.
42. May, R.H., Gage, J.D., 1993. A dip into the deep-seas. Nature 365, 609-610.
43. Monniot, C., Monniot, F., 1978. Recent work on the deep-sea tunicates. Oceanography and Marine Biology Annual Review 16, 181-228.
44. Newton, P.P., Lampitt, R.S., Jickells, T.D., King, P., Boutle, C., 1994. Temporal and spatial variability of biogenic particle fluxes during the JGOFS northeast Atlantic process studies at 47°N 20°W. Deep-Sea Research I 41, 1617-1642.
45. Paterson, G.L.J., Gage, J.D., Bett, B.J., Lamont, P., Thurston, M.H., 1994a. Patterns of abundance and diversity from the abyss - polychaetes from northeastern Atlantic abyssal plains. In: Dauvin, J.-C., Laubier, L., Reish, D.J., (Eds.), Actes de la 4ème Conférence internationale des Polychètes. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, vol. 162, pp. 502-511.
46. Paterson, G.L.J., Thurston, M.H., Lamont, P., Gage, J.D., Bett, B.J., 1994b. Patterns of polychaete assemblage structure from the abyss: some preliminary observations from NE Atlantic abyssal plains. Polychaete Research 16, 16-19.
47. Piper, D.Z., Blueford, J.R., 1982. Distribution, mineralogy and texture of manganese nodules and their relation to sediment at DOMES site A in the equatorial North Pacific. Deep-Sea Research 29, 927-952.
48. Rabouille, C., Gaillard, J.-F., Sibuet, M., Beaucaire, C., Bonté, P., Crassous, P., Jahnke, R., Khripounoff, A., Legeleux, F., Laureillard, J., Méjanelle, L., Pierre, C., Reflexans, J.-C., Reyss, J.-L., 1993. Sediment geochemistry in the three EUMELI sites in the tropical NE Atlantic: general presentation and first results. Annales de linstitut Océanographique 69 (1), 35-42.
49. Relexans, J.-C., Deming, J., Dinet, A., Gaillard, J.-F., Sibuet, M., 1996. Sedimentary organic matter and micro-meiobenthos with relation to trophic conditions in the tropical northeast Atlantic. Deep-Sea Research 43, 1343-1368.
50. Rex, M.A., Stuart, C.T., Hessler, R.R., Allen, J.A., Sanders, H.L., Wilson, G.D.F., 1993. Global-scale latitudinal patterns os species diversity in the deep-sea benthos. Nature 365, 636-639.
51. Rice, A.L., Lambshead, P.J.D., 1994. Patch dynamics in deep-sea benthos: the role of a heterogeneous supply of organic matter. In: Giller, P.A., Hildrew, A.G., Raffaelli, D.G. (Eds.), Aquatic Ecology, Scale, Pattern and Process. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, pp. 469-497.
52. Rice, A.L., Thurston, M.H., Bett, B.J., 1994. The IOSDL DEEPSEAS programme: photographic evidence for the presence and absence of a seasonal input of phytodetritus at contrasting abyssal sites in the northeastern Atlantic. Deep-Sea Research 41, 1305-1320.
53. Richardson, M.D., Young, D.K., 1987. Abyssal benthos of the Venezuela Basin, Caribbean Sea: standing stock considerations. Deep-Sea Research 34, 145-164.
54. Richardson, M.D., Briggs, K.B., Young, D.K., 1985. Effects of biological activity by abyssal macroinvertebrates on sediment structure in the Venezuela Basin. Marine Geology 68, 243-267.
55. Ricklefs, R.E., 1989. Speciation and diversity: the integration of local and regional processes. In: Otte, D., Endler, J.A. (Eds.), Speciation and Its Consequences. Sinauer Associates, Inc, Sunderland, MA, pp. 599-622.
56. Ricklefs, R.E., Schluter, D., 1993. Species Diversity in Ecological Communities. Historical and Geographical Perspectives. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
57. Rosenzsweig, M.L., 1995. Species Diversity in Time and Space. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 436 pp.
58. Rosenzsweig, M.L., Abramsky, Z., 1993. How are diversity and productivity related? In: Ricklefs, R.E., Schluter, D. (Eds.), Species Diversity in Ecological Communities. Historical and Geographical Perspectives. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 52-65.
59. Sanders, H.L., 1968. Marine benthic diversity: a comparative study. American Naturalist 102, 243-282.
60. Santos, V., Billet, D.S.M., Rice, A.L., Wolff, G.A., 1994. Organic matter in the deep-sea sediments from the Porcupine Abyssal plain in the north-east Atlantic Ocean. I - Lipids. Deep-Sea Research 41, 787-819.
61. Sibuet, M., 1980. Distribution and diversity of asteroids in Atlantic abyssal basins. Sarsia 64, 85-91.
62. Sibuet, M., Albert, P., Charmasson, S., Deming, J., Dinet, A., Galeron, J., Guidi-Guilvard, L., Mahaut, M.L., 1993. The benthic ecosystem in the three EUMELI sites in the northeast tropical Atlantic: general perspectives and initial results on biological abundance and activity. Annales de l'Institute Océanographique Paris 69 (1), 21-33.
63. Sibuet, M., Lambert, C.E., Chesselet, R., Laubier, L., 1989. Density of the major size groups of the benthic fauna and trophic input in deep basins of the Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Marine Research 47, 851-867.
64. Sibuet, M., Monniot, C., Desbruyéres, D., Dinet, A., Khripounoff, A., Rowe, G.T., Segonzac, M., 1982. Peuplement benthiques et characteristiques trophiques du milieu dans la plaine abyssale de Demerara. Oceanologica Acta 7, 345-358.
65. Smith, C.R., Hoover, D.J., Doan, S.E., Pope, R.H., DeMaster, D.J., Dodds, F.C., Altabet, M.A., 1996 Phytodetritus at the abyssal seafloor across 10 degrees of latitude in the central equatorial Pacific. Deep-Sea Research II 43 (4-6), 1309-1338.
66. Smith, C.R., Berelson, W., DeMaster, D.J., Dodds, F.C., Hammond, D., Hoover, D.J., Pope, R.H., Stephens, M., 1997. Latitudinal variations in benthic processes in the abyssal equatorial Pacific: control by biogenic particle flux. Deep-Sea Research II 44 (9-10), 2295-2317.
67. Sokolova, A., 1972. The trophic structure of the deep-sea macrobenthos. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the U.K. 10, 1-12.
68. Speiss, F.N., Hessler, R.R., Wilson, G.D.F., Weydert, M., 1987. Environmental effects of deep-sea dredging. Scripps Institution of Oceanography Reference Series 87 (5), 86 pp.
69. Thistle, D., Ertman, S.C., Fauchald, K., 1991. The fauna of the HEBBLE site: patterns in the standing stock and sediment dynamic effects. Marine Geology 99, 413-422.
70. Thistle, D., Wilson, G.D.F., 1996. Is the HEBBLE isopod fauna hydro dynamically modified? A second test. Deep-Sea Research I 43, 545-554.
71. Thistle, D., Yingst, J.Y., Fauchald, K., 1985. A deep-sea benthic community exposed to strong bottom currents on the Scotian Rise (Western Atlantic). Marine Geology 66, 91-112.
72. Thurston, M.H., Bett, B.J., Rice, A.L., Jackson, P.A.B., 1994. Variations in the invertebrate abyssal megafauna in the North Atlantic Ocean. Deep-Sea Research 41, 1321-1348.
73. Thurston, M.H., Rice, A.L., Bett, B.J., 1998. Latitudinal variation in invertebrate megafaunal abundance and biomass in the North Atlantic ocean abyss. Deep-Sea Research II 45 (1-3), 203-224.
74. Vincx, M., Bett, B.J., Dinet, A., Ferrero, T.J., Gooday, A.J., Lambshead, P.J.D., Pfankuche, O., Soltwedel, T., Vanreusel, A., 1994. Meiobenthos of the deep Northeast Atlantic. Advances in Marine Biology 30, 1-88.
75. Watts, M.C., Etter, R.J., Rex, M.A., 1992. Effects of spatial and temporal scale on the relationship of surface pigment biomass to community structure in the deep-sea benthos. In: Rowe, G.T., Pariente, V., (Eds.), Deep-Sea Food Chains and the Carbon Cycle, NATO ASI Series, vol. C360. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 245-256.
76. Wilson, G.D.F., 1990. Biological evaluation of a Preservational Reserve Area "BEPRA I". Cruise Report and Interim Report on Laboratory Analysis. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 34 pp.
77. Wilson, G.D.F., 1998. Historical influences on deep-sea isopod diversity in the Atlantic Ocean. Deep-Sea Research II 45 (1-3), 279-302.
78. Wilson, G.D.F., 1992. Biological Evaluation of a Preservational Area - Fauna Data and Comparative Analysis. Australian Museum, Sydney, 60 pp.
79. Wilson, G.D.F., Hessler, R.R., 1987. The effects of manganese nodule test mining on the benthic fauna in the North Equatorial Pacific. In: Speiss, F.N., Hessler, R.R., Wilson, G.D.F., Weydert, M. (Eds.), Environmental Effects of Deep-Sea Dredging. Scripps Institution of Oceanography Reference Series, 87, 24-8.