Cold Seep Epifaunal Communities on the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand: Composition, Succession, and Vulnerability to Human Activities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Bowden, David A ^a   Rowden, Ashley A ^a   Thurber, Andrew R ^b   Baco, Amy R ^c   Levin, Lisa A ^d   Smith, Craig R ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR MARINE BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; METHANE; SULFIDE;

AMPHARETID POLYCHAETES; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BATHYMODIOLIN MUSSEL; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIVALVE; CHEMOAUTOTROPH; CLAM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; FAUNA; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); LAMELLIBRACHID TUBEWORM; LIFE HISTORY; MICROHABITAT; MUSSEL; NEW ZEALAND; POLYCHAETA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEDIMENT; SENESCENCE; SIBOGLINID TUBEWORM; SIBOGLINIDAE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DOMINANCE; TAXONOMY; VESICOMYID CLAM;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; COLD TEMPERATURE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; MARINE BIOLOGY; METHANE; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANS AND SEAS; POLYCHAETA; SULFIDES;

EID: 84885755431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076869     Document Type: Article

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