How Deep-Sea Wood Falls Sustain Chemosynthetic Life

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bienhold, Christina ^a,b   Pop Ristova, Petra ^a,b   Wenzhöfer, Frank ^a,b   Dittmar, Thorsten ^c   Boetius, Antje ^a,b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; BIVALVE; DEEP SEA; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOSYSTEM; FAUNA; HABITAT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENTATION; WOOD;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIVALVIA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXYGEN; POROSITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFIDES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WOOD;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIVALVIA; CETACEA; XYLOPHAGA;

EID: 84871745722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053590     Document Type: Article

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