Impacts of anthropogenic disturbances at deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems: A review

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 102, Issue , 2014, Pages 59-72

  Van Dover, Cindy Lee ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization processes; Commercial activities; Cumulative impacts; Deep sea mining; Larval dynamics; Mitigation; Resilience; Scientific research

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; HOT SPRINGS; MINERAL RESOURCES; VOLCANOES;

COLONIZATION PROCESS; COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES; CUMULATIVE IMPACTS; MITIGATION; RESILIENCE; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES;

DEEP SEA MINING;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COLONIZATION; COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; HYDROTHERMAL VENT COMMUNITY; MINING;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RECOLONIZATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); HYDROTHERMAL VENT SPECIES; IMMIGRATION; LARVA; LIFE HISTORY; MINING; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SYNECOLOGY; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; INVERTEBRATE; RECREATION; RESEARCH; VOLCANO;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; HYDROBIOLOGY; HYDROTHERMAL VENTS; INVERTEBRATES; LARVA; MINING; RECREATION; RESEARCH; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

EID: 84921953132     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: 18790291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2014.03.008     Document Type: Article

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