Chemosynthetic trophic support for the benthic community at an intertidal cold seep site at Mocha Island off central Chile

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 431-439

  Sellanes, Javier ^a,b   Zapata Hernández, Germán ^a   Pantoja, Silvio ^b   Jessen, Gerdhard L ^b  

^a Universidad Católica del Norte   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Food web; Intertidal benthos; Methane seeps; Microbial filaments; Mixing models; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BENTHOS; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMOSYNTHESIS; COLD SEEP; CRUSTACEAN; FOOD WEB; GASTROPOD; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MACROALGA; METHANE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLYCHAETE; RED ALGA; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

BIO BIO; CHILE; MOCHA ISLAND;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CIROLANIDAE; CRUSTACEA; DORVILLEIDAE; GASTROPODA; GELIDIUM; INVERTEBRATA; MARPHYSA; NEREIDA; POLYCHAETA; RHODOPHYTA; SCHISTOMERINGOS; TANAIDAE; TEGULA ATRA; ZEUXO MARMORATUS;

EID: 82955195424     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2011.10.016     Document Type: Article

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