A serpentinite-hosted ecosystem: The Lost City hydrothermal field

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5714, 2005, Pages 1428-1434

  Kelley, Deborah S ^a   Karson, Jeffrey A ^b   Früh Green, Gretchen L ^c   Yoerger, Dana R ^d   Shank, Timothy M ^d   Butterfield, David A ^e   Hayes, John M ^d   Schrenk, Matthew O ^a   Olson, Eric J ^a   Proskurowski, Giora ^a   Jakuba, Mike ^d   Bradley, Al ^d   Larson, Ben ^a   Ludwig, Kristin ^a   Glickson, Deborah ^a   Buckman, Kate ^d   Bradley, Alexander S ^f   Brazelton, William J ^a   Roe, Kevin ^e   Elend, Mitch J ^a   Delacour, Adélie ^c   Bernasconi, Stefano M ^c   Lilley, Marvin D ^a   Baross, John A ^a   Summons, Roger E ^f   Sylva, Sean P ^d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBONATES; CHIMNEYS; METHANE; PH EFFECTS; SEAWATER;

CHEMOSYNTHETIC ORGANISMS; HYDROGEN-RICH-FLUIDS; HYDROTHERMAL FIELDS; MACROFAUNAL COMMUNITIES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ALUMINUM; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE INHIBITOR; HYDROGEN; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; METAL; METHANE; NICKEL; SEA WATER; SERPENTINE; SILICON; ZINC;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; METHANE; SERPENTINITE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALKALINITY; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY; GEOLOGY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; MACROFAUNA; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PERIDOTITE; POROSITY; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; ROCK; SERPENTINITE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CARBONATES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FISHES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HEAT; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INVERTEBRATES; LIPIDS; METHANE; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LOST CITY HYDROTHERMAL FIELD; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 20044396151     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1102556     Document Type: Article

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47. We express our deep appreciation to the crews of the R/V Atlantis and Alvin for their support and help with the 2003 Lost City expedition. Their humor, friendship, and professionalism were instrumental to the success of the field program. We also very much appreciate the helpful comments of four anonymous reviewers. We thank B. Nelson for his time and help with the Sr analyses and for making his laboratory available to us, S. R. Emerson for guidance in chemical analyses of the carbonate samples and use of his laboratory facilities, and M. Lin for technical assistance with phylogenetic analyses. We acknowledge funding from NSF grants OCE0137206 (D.S.K.), OCE0136816 (J.A.K.), and OCE0136871 (D.R.Y. and T.M.S.). Work by J.A.B. was also supported by the NASA Astrobiology Institute through the Carnegie Geophysical Institute. Support to G.L.F.-G. was through Swiss National Science Foundation grant 2100-068055. J.M.H. was supported in part by the NASA Astrobiology Institute through the University of Rhode Island.