ECOLOGY OF WHALE FALLS AT THE DEEP-SEA FLOOR

By C. Smith, A. Baco. 2003

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Cryptic species, phenotypic plasticity, and complex life histories: Assessing deep-sea faunal diversity with molecular markers (2009, background): “Nearly 1000 new animal species and many higher taxa have been described from chemosynthetic environments alone (e.g., hydrothermal vents, hydrocarbon seeps, and sites of organic enrichment), and the diversity of microorganisms may be many times greater (reviewed by Sibuet and Olu, 1998; Tunnicliffe ”
The fauna of hydrothermal vents on the Mohn Ridge (North Atlantic) (2010, background): “Some vent fauna can also be found associated with hydrocarbon seeps and whale and wood falls (e.g. Black et al. 1997; Feldman et al. 2001; Smith & Baco 2003; Levin & Mendoza 2007).”
Time-series analysis of six whale-fall communities in Monterey Canyon, California, USA (2010, unknown): “Smith and Baco (2003) first demonstrated truncated and overlapping successional stages, suggesting that the age of the whale at death and, therefore, the calcification of bone and lipid reservoir contained within it, might ultimately control the longevity of each stage.”
What can we learn from resource pulses? (2008, background): “For example, whale carcasses represent temporally stored resources for consumers in both terrestrial and marine systems (Polis and Hurd 1996, Rose and Polis 1998, Smith and 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”
The exploration of marine biodiversity: scientific and technological challenges (2006, background): “In the case of whale falls, there is a three-step ecological progression (Smith and Baco 2003).”
Phylogenetic diversity of culturable fungi from the deep-sea sediments of the Central Indian Basin and their growth characteristics (2010, background): “Patchy distribution of fungi seen in the Central Indian Basin appears to be similar to the scenario of high bacterial population associated with “whale fall” in deep sea ( Smith and Baco 2003 ).”
The deep-sea floor ecosystem: current status and prospects of anthropogenic change by the year 2025 (2003, background): “In general, the deep-sea floor is also characterized by very low physical energy, including sluggish currents ( 0.25 knots), very slow sediment accumulation rates (0.1–10 cm per thousand years), and an absence of sunlight (Gage & Tyler 1991; Smith & Demopoulos 2003).”
Carrion cycling in food webs: comparisons among terrestrial and marine ecosystems (2012, background): “For example, due to low temperatures and increased pressure at abyssal ocean depths, a single cetacean carcass can provide food for several years to hundreds of thousands of scavengers comprising nearly 200 species (Smith and Baco 2003), whereas a carcass of similar size on land can be rendered usel”
ECOLOGY OF COLD SEEP SEDIMENTS: INTERACTIONS OF FAUNA WITH FLOW, CHEMISTRY AND MICROBES (2005, background): “However, Foraminifera at Gulf of Mexico seeps appear to exhibit lower densities than reported from the Pacific (Robinson et al. 2004).”