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DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS
Volume 87, Issue -, Pages 70-81Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2014.02.008
Keywords
Colonisation; Organic and inorganic substrata; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Hydrothermal; Recruitment; Diversity; Temperature
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- Ifremer and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research [12-04-01716-a]
- Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation [14.740.11.1049 8334]
- French government through Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) under the Investissements d'Avenir programme [ANR-10-LABX-19-0]
- ANR DEEP-OASES [ANRO6BDV005]
- GDR ECCHIS
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In 2006, paired wood and slate panels, each equipped with a temperature probe, were deployed on three different localities on and around the Eiffel Tower edifice (Lucky Strike vent field, Mid-Atlantic Ridge) within close proximity of visible hydrothermal activity. Recovery of these panels took place in 2008. For this two-year deployment period, the composition of colonising organisms (both macro-and meiofauna) was assessed, along with image analyses of the deployment sites in 2006 and 2008. Very few significant differences in colonisation between organic (wood) and inorganic (slate) panels were revealed. Rather, the locality of deployment and the local environmental conditions and hydrothermal activity were found to influence taxonomic composition. Variability in microhabitat conditions and biological interactions were hypothesised to interact jointly in shaping new faunal communities on the colonisation substrata. (c) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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