Seamounts: Identity crisis or split personality?

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2001-2008

  McClain, Craig R ^a  

^a MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Coral; Deep sea; Ecological oasis; Endemism; Hotspot; Island biogeography; Isolation; Seamount

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CORAL; DEEP SEA; HABITAT CONSERVATION; SEAMOUNT; SPONGE;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 36248933633     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01783.x     Document Type: Review

References (73)

1. Auster, P.J., Moore, J., Heinonen, K.B. Watling, L. (2005) A habitat classification scheme for seamount landscapes: assessing the functional role of deep-water corals as fish habitat. Cold-water corals and ecosystems (ed. by A. Freiwald J.M. Roberts pp. 761 769. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
2. Avila, S.P. Malaquias, M.A.E. (2003) Biogeographical relationships of the molluscan fauna of the Ormonde Seamount (Gorringe Bank, Northeast Atlantic Ocean). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 69, 145 150.
3. Bolch, C.J.S., Elliot, N.G. Ward, R.D. (1993) Enzyme variation in the south-eastern Australian samples of the Blue-eye or Deepsea Trevella, Hyperoglyphe antarctica Carmichael 1818 (Teleostei: Stromateoidei). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 44, 687 697.
4. Brown, J.H. (1971) Mammals on mountaintops: nonequilibrium insular biogeography. The American Naturalist, 105, 467 478.
5. Bucklin, A., Wilson, R.R., Jr. Smith, K.L., Jr. (1987) Genetic differentiation of seamount and basin populations of the deep-sea amphipod Eurythenes gryllus. Deep-Sea Research, 34, 1795 1810.
6. Carney, R.S. (1994) Consideration of the oasis analogy for chemosynthetic communities at the Gulf of Mexico hydrocarbon vents. Geo-Marine Letters, 14, 149 159.
7. Cartes, J.E. Carrasson, M. (2004) Influence of trophic variables on the depth-range distributions and zonation rates of deep-sea megafauna: the case of the Western Mediterranean assemblages. Deep-Sea Research I, 51, 263 279.
8. Comeau, L.A., Vezina, A.F., Bourgeois, M. Juniper, S.K. (1995) Relationships between phytoplankton production and the physical structure of the water column near Cobb Seamount, northeast Pacific. Deep-Sea Research, 42, 993 1005.
9. De Forges, B.R., Koslow, J.A. Poore, G.C.B. (2000) Diversity and endemism of the benthic seamount fauna in the southwest Pacific. Nature, 405, 944 947.
10. Dower, J. Mackas, D.L. (1996) 'Seamount effects' in the zooplankton community near Cobb Seamount. Deep-Sea Research I, 43, 837 858.
11. Dower, J., Freeland, H. Juniper, K. (1992) A strong biological response to oceanic flow past Cobb Seamount. Deep-Sea Research, 39, 1139 1145.
12. Etnoyer, P. Morgan, L. (2003) Occurrences of habitat-forming deep sea corals in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Marine Conservation Biology Institute, Redmond, WA, USA.
13. Etnoyer, P. Morgan, L. (2005) Habitat-forming deep-sea corals in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Coldwater corals and ecosystems (ed. by A. Freiwald J.M. Roberts pp. 309 321. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
14. Etter, R.J. Mullineaux, L.S. (2001) Deep-sea communities. Marine community ecology (ed. by M.D. Bertness, S.D. Gaines M.E. Hay pp. 367 394. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, USA.
15. Fischer, L. (2005) The impact of the Great Meteor Seamount on the feeding biology and the distribution of dominant Calanoida (Crustacea, Copepoda). Berichte zur Polar und Meeresforsch, 499, 3 6.
16. Froese, R. Sampang, A. (2004) Taxonomy and biology of seamount fishes. Seamount: biodiversity and fisheries (ed. by T. Moroto D. Pauly pp. 25 32. Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
17. Gage, J.D. Tyler, P.A. (1982) Depth-related gradients in size structure and the bathymetric zonation of deep-sea brittle stars. Marine Biology, 71, 299 308.
18. Gage, J.D. Tyler, P.A. (1991) Deep-sea biology: a natural history of organisms at the deep-sea floor. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
19. Genin, A. (2004) Bio-physical coupling in the formation of zooplankton and fish aggregations over abrupt topographies. Journal of Marine Systems, 50, 3 20.
20. Genin, A. Boehlert, G.W. (1985) Dynamics of temperature and chlorophyll structures above a seamount: an oceanic experiment. Journal of Marine Research, 43, 907 924.
21. Gillet, P. Dauvin, J.-C. (2000) Polychaetes from the Atlantic seamounts of the southern Azores: biogeographical distribution and reproductive patterns. Journal of the Marine Biological Association, UK, 80, 1019 1029.
22. Gillet, P. Dauvin, J.-C. (2003) Polychaetes from the Irving, Meteor and Plato seamounts, North Atlantic ocean: origin and geographic relationships. Journal of the Marine Biological Association, UK, 83, 49 53.
23. Gjerde, K.M. Breide, C. (2003) Towards a strategy for high seas marine protected areas. Proceedings of the IUCN, WCPA, and WWF Experts' Workshop on High Seas Marine Protected Areas, 15 to 17 January 2003, Malga, Spain, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
24. Grassle, J.F. Maciolek, N.J. (1992) Deep-sea species richness: regional and local diversity estimates from quantitative bottom samples. The American Naturalist, 139, 313 341.
25. Heinz, P., Ruepp, D. Hemleben, C. (2004) Benthic foraminifera assemblages at Great Meteor Seamount. Marine Biology, 144, 985 988.
26. Hubbs, C.L. (1959) Initial discoveries of fish faunas on seamounts and offshore banks in the eastern Pacific. Pacific Science, 12, 311 316.
27. Husebo, A., Nottestad, L., Fossa, J.H., Furevik, D.M. Jorgensen, S.B. (2002) Distribution and abundance of fish in deep-sea coral habitats. Hydrobiologia, 471, 91 99.
28. Johannesson, K. (1988) The paradox of Rockall: why is a brooding gastropod (Littorina saxatilis) more widespread than one having a planktonic larval dispersal stage (L. littorea)? Marine Biology, 99, 507 513.
29. Jones, W.J., Clague, D. Vrijenhoek, R. (2006) Population genetics and ecology of seamount clam (Limidae: Acesta) populations in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. Seamount Biogeosciences Network. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, USA.
30. Jumars, P.A. (1975) Environmental grain and polychaete species' diversity in a bathyal community. Marine Biology, 30, 253 266.
31. Kitchingman, A. Lai, S. (2004) Inferences on potential seamount locations from mid-resolution bathymetric data. Seamounts: biodiversity and fisheries (ed. by T. Morato D. Pauly pp. 7 12. Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
32. Leal, J.H. Bouchet, P. (1991) Distribution patterns and dispersal of prosobranch gastropods along a seamount chain in the Atlantic Ocean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association, UK, 71, 11 25.
33. Lundsten, L., Devogelaere, A., Barry, J. Clague, D. (2006) A characterization of the megafauna on Davidson Seamount. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA.
34. Lutjeharms, J.R.E. Heydorn, A.E.F. (1981) The rock-lobster (Jasus tristani) on Vema Seamount: drifting buoys suggest a possible recruiting mechanism. Deep-Sea Research, 28A, 631 636.
35. MacArthur, R.H. Wilson, E.O. (1967) The theory of island biogeography. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA.
36. McClain, C.R., Rex, M.A. Etter, R.J. (in press) Deep-sea macroecology. Marine macroecology (ed. by J.D. Witman K. Roy). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA.
37. Moore, J.A., Vecchione, M., Collete, B.B., Gibbons, R., Hartel, K.E., Calbraith, J.K., Turnipseed, M., Southworth, M. Watkins, E. (2001) Biodiversity of Bear Seamount, New England Seamount Chain: results of exploratory trawling. Journal of the Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science, 31, 363 372.
38. Mosely, H.N. (1880) Deep-sea dredging and life in the deep sea. Nature, 21, 591 593.
39. Mullineaux, L.S. Mills, S.W. (1998) A test of the larval retention hypothesis in seamount-generated flows. Deep-Sea Research I, 44, 745 770.
40. Nekola, J.C. White, P.S. (1999) The distance decay of similarity in biogeography and ecology. Journal of Biogeography, 26, 867 878.
41. Oliverio, M. Gofas, S. (2006) Coralliophiline diversity at mid-Atlantic seamounts (Neogastropoda, Muricidae, Coralliophilinae). Bulletin of Marine Science, 79, 205 230.
42. Parker, T. Tunnicliffe, V. (1994) Dispersal strategies of the biota on an oceanic seamount: implications for ecology and biogeography. Biological Bulletin, 187, 336 345.
43. Rex, M.A. (1973) Deep-sea species diversity: decreased gastropod diversity at abyssal depths. Science, 181, 1051 1053.
44. Rex, M.A. (1977) Zonation in deep-sea gastropods the importance of biological interactions to rates of zonation. Biology of benthic organisms (ed. by B.F. Keegan, P.O. Ceidigh P.J.S. Boaden pp. 521 530. Pergamon Press, New York.
45. Rex, M.A. (1981) Community structure in the deep-sea benthos. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 12, 331 353.
46. Rex, M.A., Etter, R.J. Stuart, C.T. (1997) Large-scale patterns of species diversity in the deep-sea benthos. Marine biodiversity (ed. by R.F.G. Ormond, J.D. Gage M.V. Angel pp. 94 121. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
47. Rex, M.A., Crame, J.A., Stuart, C.T. Clarke, A. (2005a) Large-scale biogeographic patterns in marine mollusks: a confluence of history and productivity? Ecology, 86, 2288 2297.
48. Rex, M.A., McClain, C.R., Johnson, N.A., Etter, R.J., Allen, J.A., Bouchet, P. Waren, A. (2005b) A source-sink hypothesis for abyssal biodiversity. The American Naturalist, 165, 163 178.
49. Richardson, P.L. (1980) Mesoscale flow and thermohaline structure around Fieberling seamount. Journal of Geophysical Research, 96, 16653 16672.
50. Roberts, C.M. (2002) Deep impact: the rising toll of fishing in the deep sea. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 117, 242 245.
51. Roberts, S. Hirshvield, M. (2004) Deep-sea corals: out of sight, but no longer out of mind. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2, 123 130.
52. Roden, G.I. (1987) Effect of seamounts and seamount chains on ocean circulation and thermohaline structure. Seamounts, islands, and atolls (ed. by B.H.E.A. Keating pp. 335 354. Geophysical Monographs, Washington, DC.
53. Rowden, A.A., O'Shea, S. Clark, D.A. (2002) Benthic biodiversity of seamounts on the northwest Chatham Rise. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand.
54. Rowden, A.A., Clark, M.R., O'Shea, S. McKnight, D.G. (2003) Benthic biodiversity of seamounts on the southern Kermadec volcanic arc. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand.
55. Rogers, A.D. (1994) The biology of seamounts. Advances in Marine Biology, 30, 304 360.
56. Samadi, S., Bottan, L., Macpherson, E., Richer De Forges, B. Boisselier, M.-C. (2006) Seamount endemism questioned by the geographical distribution and population genetic structure of marine invertebrates. Marine Biology, 149, 1463 1475.
57. Smith, P.J., McVeagh, S.M., Mingoia, J.T. France, S.C. (2004) Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation in deep-sea bamboo coral (Keratoisidinae) species in the southwest and northwest Pacific Ocean. Marine Biology, 144, 253 261.
58. Stocks, K. (2004) Seamount invertebrates: composition and vulnerability to fishing. Seamounts: biodiversity and fisheries (ed. by T. Moroto D. Pauly pp. 17 24. Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
59. Stone, G., Madin, L., Stocks, K., Hovermale, G., Hoagland, P., Schumacher, M., Steve, C. Tausig, H. (2003) Seamount biodiversity, exploitation and conservation: case study paper. Defying Ocean's End Conference, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, 29 May-3 June 2003, http://www.defyingoceansend.org.
60. Thistle, D. (1979a) Deep-sea harpacticoid copepod diversity maintenance: the role of polychaetes. Marine Biology, 52, 371 376.
61. Thistle, D. (1979b) Harpacticoid copepods and biogenic structures: implications for deep-sea diversity maintenance. Ecological processes in coastal and marine systems (ed. by R.J. Livingston pp. 217 231. Plenum, New York.
62. Thistle, D. (1983) The role of biologically produced habitat heterogeneity in deep-sea diversity maintenance. Deep-Sea Research, 30, 1235 1245.
63. Thistle, D. Eckman, J.E. (1988) Response to harpacticoid copepods to habitat structure at a deep-sea site. Hydrobiologia, 167/168, 143 149.
64. Tunnicliffe, V., McArthur, A.G. McHugh, D. (1998) A biogeographical perspective of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent fauna. Advances in Marine Biology, 34, 353 442.
65. UK Biodiversity Group (2000) Tranche 2 action plans, volume v - maritime species and habitats. English Nature, Peterborough.
66. Vastano, A.C. Warren, B.A. (1976) Perturbations to the Gulf Stream by Atlantis II Seamount. Deep-Sea Research, 23, 681 694.
67. Verlaan, P.A. (1992) Benthic recruitment and manganese crust formation on seamounts. Marine Biology, 113, 171 174.
68. Vermeij, G. (2004) Island life: a view from the sea. Frontiers of biogeography: new directions in the geography of nature (ed. by M.V. Lomolino L.R. Heaney pp. 239 254. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, USA.
69. Wessel, P. (2001) Global distribution of seamounts inferred from gridded Geosat/ERS-1 altimetry. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, 19431 19442.
70. Whittaker, R.J. Fernández-Palacios, J.M. (2007) Island biogeography: ecology, evolution, and conservation, 2nd edn. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
71. Wilson, R.R. Kaufmann, R.S. (1987) Seamount biota and biogeography. Seamounts, islands, and atolls (ed. by B.H.E.A. Keating pp. 227 237. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC.
72. Wishner, K., Levin, L., Gowing, M. Mullineaux, L.S. (1990) Involvement of the oxygen minimum in benthic zonation on a deep seamount. Nature, 346, 57 59.
73. Worm, B., Lotze, H.K. Myers, R.A. (2003) Predator diversity hotspots in the blue ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 100, 9884 9888.