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| Han, Yuchen; Gonnella, Giorgio; Adam, Nicole; Schippers, Axel; Burkhardt, Lia; Kurtz, Stefan; Schwarz-schampera, Ulrich; Franke, Henrike; Perner, Mirjam. |
| To assess the risk that mining of seafloor massive sulfides (SMS) from extinct hydrothermal vent environments has for changing the ecosystem irreversibly, we sampled SMS analogous habitats from the Kairei and the Pelagia vent fields along the Indian Ridge. In total 19.8 million 16S rRNA tags from 14 different sites were analyzed and the microbial communities were compared with each other and with publicly available data sets from other marine environments. The chimneys appear to provide habitats for microorganisms that are not found or only detectable in very low numbers in other marine habitats. The chimneys also host rare organisms and may function as a vital part of the ocean’s seed bank. Many of the reads from active and inactive chimney samples were... |
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| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00449/56079/57603.pdf |
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