Composition of a one-year-old Riftia pachyptila community following a clearance experiment: Insight to succession patterns at deep-sea hydrothermal vents

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 207, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 177-182

  Govenar, B ^a   Freeman, M ^a   Bergquist, D C ^a,c   Johnson, G A ^b   Fisher, C R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HYDROTHERMAL VENT COMMUNITY; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SUCCESSION;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

BATHYMODIOLUS; BATHYMODIOLUS THERMOPHILUS; BIVALVIA; GASTROPODA; MYTILIDAE; PACHYPTILA; PARALVINELLA; PARALVINELLA GRASSLEI; POLYCHAETA; RIFTIA PACHYPTILA; SIBOGLINIDAE; TEVNIA; TEVNIA JERICHONANA; VESTIMENTIFERA;

EID: 11144244362     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1543204     Document Type: Article

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