Stable isotopes provide new insights into vestimentiferan physiological ecology at Gulf of Mexico cold seeps

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 169-174

  Becker, Erin Leigh ^a   MacKo, Stephen A ^b   Lee, Raymond W ^c   Fisher, Charles R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Bicarbonate; Dissolved inorganic carbon; Lower continental slope; Nutrition; Resource partitioning

Indexed keywords

SULFATE; SULFIDE;

AMMONIUM; BICARBONATE; BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COLD SEEP ORGANISM; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DATA SET; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NICHE PARTITIONING; POLYCHAETE; POREWATER; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SAMPLING; SEAFLOOR; SEAWATER; STABLE ISOTOPE; SYMBIONT; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COLD; ECOSYSTEM; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYCHAETA; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; COLD TEMPERATURE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; ISOTOPE LABELING; POLYCHAETA; SULFATES; SULFIDES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

ANIMALIA; ARCHAEA; ESCARPIA LAMINATA; LAMELLIBRACHIA SP.; VESTIMENTIFERA;

EID: 79953854759     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-010-0754-z     Document Type: Article

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