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| Olu, Karine; Cordes, Erik E.; Fisher, Charles R.; Brooks, James M.; Sibuet, Myriam; Desbruyeres, Daniel. |
| Like hydrothermal vents along oceanic ridges, cold seeps are patchy and isolated ecosystems along continental margins, extending from bathyal to abyssal depths. The Atlantic Equatorial Belt (AEB), from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Guinea, was one focus of the Census of Marine Life ChEss (Chemosynthetic Ecosystems) program to study biogeography of seep and vent fauna. We present a review and analysis of collections from five seep regions along the AEB: the Gulf of Mexico where extensive faunal sampling has been conducted from 400 to 3300m, the Barbados accretionary prism, the Blake ridge diapir, and in the Eastern Atlantic from the Congo and Gabon margins and the recently explored Nigeria margin. Of the 72 taxa identified at the species level, a total... |
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Palavras-chave: Gulf of mexico; Barbados accretionary prism; Mussel bathymodiolus childressi; Hydrothermal vent communities; Deep sea vent; Spatial distribution; Family veiscomyidae; Dispersal barriers; Hydrocarbon seeps; Species diversity. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00011/12207/8975.pdf |
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| Cowart, Dominique; Halanych, Kenneth M.; Schaeffer, Stephen W.; Fisher, Charles R.. |
| Lamellibrachia vestimentiferan tubeworms form aggregations at hydrocarbon cold seeps in the deep Gulf of Mexico (GoM), creating structures that provide living space for other fauna. In the GoM, three Lamellibrachia taxa vary in morphology and depth ranges: Lamellibrachia luymesi (300–950 m), Lamellibrachia sp. 1 (950–2,604 m), and Lamellibrachia sp. 2 (1,175–3,304 m). While Lamellibrachia sp. 2 is consistently identified as a separate species, L. luymesi and sp. 1 cannot be discriminated using barcoding markers cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI) and large ribosomal subunit rDNA (16S). To determine if limited gene flow was a factor in the formation of these taxa, we employed more quickly evolving markers, including mitochondrial cytochrome B (CYTB),... |
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Palavras-chave: Deep sea; Hydrocarbon seep; Microsatellite; Population structure; Siboglinid; Vestimentiferan tubeworm. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00194/30494/29935.pdf |
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| Girard, Fanny; Fisher, Charles R.. |
| Cold-water corals form high biodiversity habitats in the deep sea. They are generally long-lived, slow-growing, and thus particularly vulnerable to anthropogenic impact. We used high-definition imagery to quantify the impact and assess the recovery of deep-sea corals that were affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Over three hundred Paramuricea spp. colonies were imaged yearly between 2011 and 2017 at five sites, and the images were digitized to quantify health, hydroid overgrowth, identify branch loss, and track recovery patterns. Although the median level of impact decreased after 2011 at all impacted sites, it has been stable since then and remained higher than at the reference sites. Recovery depended on the initial... |
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Palavras-chave: Anthropogenic impact; Recovery; Octocoral; Image analysis; Paramuricea biscaya. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00454/56558/58268.pdf |
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| Cowart, Dominique; Huang, Chunya; Arnaud-haond, Sophie; Carney, Susan L.; Fisher, Charles R.; Schaeffer, Stephen W.. |
| The history of colonization and dispersal in fauna distributed among deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems remains enigmatic and poorly understood because of an inability to mark and track individuals. A combination of molecular, morphological and environmental data improves understanding of spatial and temporal scales at which panmixia, disruption of gene flow or even speciation may occur. Vestimentiferan tubeworms of the genus Escarpia are important components of deep -sea cold seep ecosystems, as they provide long-term habitat for many other taxa. Three species of Escarpia, Escarpia spicata [Gulf of California (GoC)], Escarpia laminata [Gulf of Mexico (GoM)] and Escarpia southwardae (West African Cold Seeps), have been described based on morphology, but... |
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Palavras-chave: Deep sea; Hydrocarbon seep; Microsatellite; Population structure; Siboglinid; Vestimentiferan tubeworm. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00152/26354/24515.pdf |
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| Gollner, Sabine; Zekely, Julia; Govenar, Breea; Le Bris, Nadine; Nemeschkal, Hans L.; Fisher, Charles R.; Bright, Monika. |
| The permanent meiobenthic community associated with aggregations of the tubeworm Riftia pachyptila was characterized at 2 different hydrothermal vent sites, Tica and Riftia Field, on the East Pacific Rise near 9 degrees 50'N. The maximum effluent temperatures were similar at both sites, but the chemistry of the hydrothermal fluids differed between sites. The abundance of meiobenthos was very low in 5 out of 6 samples (<61 ind. 10 cm(-2)) and was higher at Tica (20 to 976 ind. 10 cm(-2)) than at Riftia Field (< 1 to 12 ind. 10 cm(-2)). Meiobenthos abundance was positively correlated with the volume of sediment within the tubeworm aggregations. Sediment consisted mainly of particulate organic material and contained only a few mineral grains. A total of... |
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Palavras-chave: Riftia pachyptila; Community study; Copepods; Nematodes; East Pacific Rise; Hydrothermal vent; Meiofauna; Meiobenthos. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2007/publication-2623.pdf |
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