Spatial and temporal variations in food web structure from newly-opened habitat at hydrothermal vents

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 77, Issue , 2012, Pages 129-140

  Gaudron, Sylvie Marylène ^a   Lefebvre, Sébastien ^b   Nunes Jorge, Amandine ^a,c   Gaill, Françoise ^a,d   Pradillon, Florence ^a,e  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Alvinella pompejana; Colonization experiment; East Pacific Rise; Epibiosis; Food web structure; Hydrothermal vent; Stable isotopes; TRACs; Trophic relationships

Indexed keywords

ALVINELLA; EAST PACIFIC RISE; EPIBIOSIS; FOOD WEBS; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; STABLE ISOTOPES; TRACS; TROPHIC RELATIONSHIPS;

EXPERIMENTS; HOT SPRINGS; ISOTOPES; TISSUE; TITANIUM;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EPIBIOSIS; FOOD WEB; HYDROTHERMAL VENT COMMUNITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIAL VARIATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ALVINELLA POMPEJANA; AQUATIC FAUNA; ARTICLE; BRANCHINOTOGLUMA SANDERSI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRIVULTID COPEPOD; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; FEEDING; FOOD WEB; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; LEPIDONOTOPODIUM RIFTENSE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYNOID POLYCHAETE; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE; TEVNIA JERICHONANA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; FOOD CHAIN; HYDROTHERMAL VENTS; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYCHAETA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ALVINELLA POMPEJANA; ALVINELLIDAE; COPEPODA; DIRIVULTIDAE; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; LEPETODRILUS ELEVATUS; LEPIDONOTOPODIUM; POLYCHAETA; POLYNOIDAE; SIBOGLINIDAE; TEVNIA JERICHONANA;

EID: 84860350200     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: 18790291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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