Macrofaunal community structure and sulfide flux at gas hydrate deposits from the Cascadia convergent margin, NE Pacific

By H. Sahling, D. Rickert, Raymond W. Lee, P. Linke, E. Suess. 2002

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography

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• Succession of hydrocarbon seep communities associated with the long-lived foundation species Lamellibrachia luymesi (2005, background): “Three distinct community types 26 Cordes et al.: Succession of hydrocarbon seep communities are associated with different sulfide regimes overlying gas hydrates on the Cascadia convergent margin (Sahling et al. 2002).”
• Diversity and Distribution of Methanotrophic Archaea at Cold Seeps (2005, background): “The microbially mediated anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is the major biological sink of the greenhouse gas methane in marine sediments (49) and serves as an important control for emission of methane into the hydrosphere.”
• ECOLOGY OF COLD SEEP SEDIMENTS: INTERACTIONS OF FAUNA WITH FLOW, CHEMISTRY AND MICROBES (2005, background): “Studies at Hydrate Ridge suggest that orange or reddish mats develop on sediments with stronger flow than nonpigmented (white) mats (M.D. Tryon, personal communication).”
• A Microbial Mat of a Large Sulfur Bacterium Preserved in a Miocene Methane-Seep Limestone (2004, background): “Around gas hydrate deposits from the Cascadia convergent margin, the highest diffusive sulfide fluxes were found in sediments colonized by Beggiatoa mats, compared to sediments colonized by communities dominated by either vesicomyid or solemyid bivalves (Sahling et al. 2002).”
• The Genera Beggiatoa and Thioploca (2006, background): “, 1994), and sulfidic sediments overlying gas hydrates (Sahling et al. 2002).”
• Biodiversity of cold seep ecosystems along the European margins (2009, background): “This high spatial variability at scales of tens to hundreds of meters has been attributed to the magnitude of fluid flow and the correlated chemical depth profiles (Henry et al., 1992; Barry et al., 1997; Olu et al. 1997; Sahling et al., 2002; Levin et al., 2003; de Beer et al., 2006).”
• Spatial heterogeneity of macrofauna at northern California methane seeps: influence of sulfide concentration and fluid flow (2003, background): “The magnitude of fluid flow in seep environments is the primary control on the chemical profile with depth, which in turn is related to the distribution of fauna (Barry et al. 1997, Sahling et al. 2002).”
• Harnessing microbially generated power on the seafloor (2002, methodology): “32 threads per inch (6-32) threaded into a hole tapped into each electrode.”
• Efficiency of the benthic filter: Biological control of the emission of dissolved methane from sediments containing shallow gas hydrates at Hydrate Ridge (2006, background): “Dense mats of the sulfide-oxidizing bacteria Beggiatoa sp. (stations BIGO 3, 4, 6, FLUFO 2, 3, 5) occur directly above gas hydrates in association with high sulfide fluxes of up to 63 ± 36 mmol m 2 d 1 [Sahling et al., 2002].”
• Hydrate Ridge: A natural laboratory for the study of microbial life fueled by methane from near-surface gas hydrates. (2004, background): “Sulfide fluxes averaged 60 and 20 mmol m 2 day 1 beneath Beggiatoa mats and Calyptogena fields, respectively (Sahling et al., 2002).”
• Impact of natural oil and higher hydrocarbons on microbial diversity, distribution, and activity in Gulf of Mexico cold-seep sediments (2010, result): “…al., 2004; Orcutt et al., 2005) and supported by this study, AOM and SR activities in GOM seep sediments are comparable to those observed in other cold-seep environments (for example, Boetius et al., 2000; Hinrichs and Boetius, 2002; Niemann et al., 2006; Sahling et al., 2002; Treude et al., 2003).”
• Recent bivalve molluscs of the genus Calyptogena (Vesicomyidae) (2006, background): “Abbreviation Year Area Akademik Mstislav Keldysh 12 Keldysh 12 1986 Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge Akademik Mstislav Keldysh 22 Keldysh 22 1990 Piip Volcano, Bering Sea Sonne 109 SO 109 1996 Continental margin off Oregon Sonne 110 SO 110 1996 Continental margin off Oregon Sonne 130 SO 130 1998 M”
• Community structure and nutrition of deep methane-seep macrobenthos from the North Pacific (Aleutian) Margin and the Gulf of Mexico (Florida Escarpment) (2007, background): “Gastropod aggregations are common in microbial mats at Hydrate Ridge (Sahling et al. 2002) and on mussel beds in many locations at a wide range of depths (Sibuet & Olu 1998).”