Biotic and abiotic factors affecting distributions of megafauna in diffuse flow on andesite and basalt along the Eastern Lau Spreading Center, Tonga

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 418, Issue , 2010, Pages 25-45

  Podowski, Elizabeth L ^a   Ma, Shufen ^b,c   Luther III, George W ^b   Wardrop, Denice ^a   Fisher, Charles R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffuse flow; Faunal distributions; GIS; In situ voltammetry; Lau back arc basin; Lava type

Indexed keywords

ANDESITE; BASALT; BIVALVE; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; CRAB; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LAVA; LOBSTER; MICROHABITAT; NICHE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SNAIL; SPREADING CENTER; SULFIDE;

TONGA;

ACTINIARIA; ALVINICONCHA; ANEMONE; AUSTINOGRAEA; BATHYMODIOLUS BREVIOR; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GALATHEIDAE; GASTROPODA; IFREMERIA NAUTILEI; MUNIDOPSIS; ZOANTHIDEA;

EID: 78649581799     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08797     Document Type: Article

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