High species richness in deep-sea chemoautotrophic whale skeleton communities

By A. Baco, C. Smith. 2003

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. L. Levin
2. S. Duperron
3. Adrian G. Glover
4. C. Smith
5. V. Ridoux

In Oceanography

1. L. Levin
2. G. Mendoza
3. C. Smith
4. S. Duperron
5. Adrian G. Glover
6. G. Rouse

Citations in the corpus

• ECOLOGY OF COLD SEEP SEDIMENTS: INTERACTIONS OF FAUNA WITH FLOW, CHEMISTRY AND MICROBES (2005, background): “Typically there are shared genera (Vesicomya, Calyptogena, Bathymodiolus, Lamellibrachia) but not species (Baco & Smith 2003).”
• Cadaver decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems (2006, background): “…(Holdaway 1930; Bornemissza 1957; Anderson and VanLaerhoven 1996; Richards and Goff 1997; Kocárek 2003) or the succession of marine trophic groups associated with whale falls on the floor of deepsea ecosystems (Bennett et al. 1994; Smith et al. 1998; Baco and Smith 2003; Smith and Baco 2003).”
• Biodiversity on the Rocks: Macrofauna Inhabiting Authigenic Carbonate at Costa Rica Methane Seeps (2015, background): “Considering non-reducing systems in the deep sea, we find that densities on inactive carbonates outside the OMZ (44 ind. 200 cm-2) are much higher than those on manganese nodules in the abyssal Pacific (22 ind. 200 cm-2) [70], seamounts off California (1–2 ind. m-2) [71], and background rocks at 960”
• Unusual benthic fauna associated with a whale fall in Monterey Canyon, California (2004, unknown): “All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2004.05.009 environments (Grassle and Morse-Porteous, 1987; Butman et al., 1995b; Baco and Smith, 2003).”
• A shallow-water whale-fall experiment in the north Atlantic (2006, background): “To date more than 400 species have been found associated with whale-falls (Baco & Smith, 2003; Smith & Baco, 2003).”
• The significance of stranding data as indicators of cetacean populations at sea: Modelling the drift of cetacean carcasses (2012, background): “In particular only carcasses with positive buoyancy can float and drift; carcasses with negative buoyancy will sink to the seabed and would be fairly quickly decomposed by necrophagous animals (Jones et al., 1998; Baco and Smith, 2003; Smith and Baco, 2003); if they drift carcasses can be washed ash”
• Time-series analysis of six whale-fall communities in Monterey Canyon, California, USA (2010, unknown): “These authors also suggested that vent and seep animals may use whale carcasses as ‘‘stepping stones,’’ bridging spatial gaps between ephemeral seep and vent habitats (Bennett et al., 1994; Baco and Smith, 2003; Smith and Baco, 2003; Smith, 2006).”
• The Diversity of Deep-Sea Mussels and Their Bacterial Symbioses (2010, background): “Similar compounds, for example sulphide and methane, are also produced during the microbially-mediated decay of large debris of organic matter such as whale or wood falls (Leschine 1995; Baco and Smith 2003; Goffredi et al. 2008; Treude et al. 2009).”