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| Shimabukuro, Mauricio; Carrerette, Orlemir; Alfaro-lucas, Joan Manel; Rizzo, Alexandra Elaine; Halanych, Kenneth M.; Sumida, Paulo Yukio Gomes. |
| Whale falls are important environments contributing to biodiversity, connectivity and evolutionary novelty in deep-sea ecosystem. Notwithstanding, most of this knowledge is based in studies from NE Pacific basin. Interestingly, the only known natural whale fall on the SW Atlantic has faunal composition affinities with carcasses from other deep-ocean basins. In this carcass, annelid worms belonging to Hesionidae are abundant and species-rich, and include some shared species with NE Pacific Ocean. Here we evaluate the diversity of Hesionidae on the SW Atlantic using new information of implanted whale bones and explore whether some species have interbasin distribution or if they represent cryptic species in different basins. We described, using morphological... |
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Palavras-chave: Deep sea; Biodiversity; Cryptic species; Biogeography; Connectivity. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00509/62081/66263.pdf |
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| Alfaro-lucas, Joan Manel; Shimabukuro, Mauricio; Ogata, Isabella, V; Fujiwara, Yoshihiro; Sumida, Paulo Y. G.. |
| The trophic structure and role of chemosynthesis remain unexplored in deep-sea whale-fall communities in areas other than the California margin. This gap limits the understanding of these communities and their ecological relationships with other chemosynthetic ecosystems, such as vents and seeps. Here, we studied 3 different whale skeleton microhabitats with hypothesized high, intermediate and low reducing conditions as well as the sediments surrounding an abyssal whale fall (4204 m depth, SW Atlantic Ocean). We analyzed trophic structures (δ13C and δ15N) and the contribution of chemosynthetically derived carbon to heterotrophic species. The high and intermediate reducing microhabitats harbored food webs dominated by consumers of chemosynthetic production,... |
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Palavras-chave: Deep sea; Whale fall; Trophic structure; Chemosynthesis; Osedax. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00442/55342/56853.pdf |
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