A review of cold seeps in the Western Atlantic, focusing on Colombia and the Caribbean

MI Aguilar Pérez, PA Zapata-Ramírez… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Areas of the seafloor enriched with seeping fluids host unique chemosynthetic communities,
and their interactions not only linked to the presence of oil and gas resources, but directly …

Effects of pollution on marine organisms

AJ Mearns, M Bissell, AM Morrison… - Water Environment …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This review covers selected 2018 articles on the biological effects of pollutants, including
human physical disturbances, on marine and estuarine plants, animals, ecosystems, and …

Report of epibenthic macrofauna found from Haima cold seeps and adjacent deep-sea habitats, South China Sea

D Dong, X Li, M Yang, L Gong, Y Li, J Sui… - Marine Life Science & …, 2021 - Springer
This work reports on a preliminary taxonomic study of epibenthic macroinvertebrates
collected or observed by underwater video at the Haima cold seeps and in adjacent deep …

How quickly will the offshore ecosystem recover from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill? Lessons learned from the 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil well blowout

M Rohal, N Barrera, E Escobar-Briones, G Brooks… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) accident occurred on 20 April 2010 in the Northern
Gulf of Mexico and resulted in a deep-sea plume of petroleum hydrocarbons and a marine …

Distribution and environmental drivers of macrofaunal nematode communities across gradients of methane seepage at cold seeps on Hikurangi Margin (New Zealand …

D Leduc, AA Rowden, S Seabrook… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2025 - frontiersin.org
Cold seeps are areas characterised by specialized biological communities that rely on
chemosynthesis for their nutrition. To date, research conducted on New Zealand's Hikurangi …

Simulating oil-driven abundance changes in benthic marine invertebrates using an ecosystem model

LN Dornberger, PA Montagna, CH Ainsworth - Environmental Pollution, 2023 - Elsevier
Field studies showed that benthic macrofauna and meiofauna abundances increased with
sediment oil concentration in areas affected by the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill …

The influence of seep habitats on sediment macrofaunal biodiversity and functional traits

AWJ Demopoulos, JR Bourque, A Durkin… - Deep Sea Research Part …, 2018 - Elsevier
Chemosynthetic ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) support dense communities of
seep megafaunal invertebrates that rely on endosymbiotic bacteria for nutrition. Distinct …

Benthic faunal baselines in the Gulf of Mexico: a precursor to evaluate future impacts

PT Schwing, PA Montagna… - … and Responses to …, 2020 - Springer
This chapter provides a comparison between recently developed, post-oil spill baseline
measurements throughout the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) and previous, pre-oil spill baselines for …

[HTML][HTML] Description of the new species Sigambra nkossa (Annelida, Pilargidae), with an analysis of the distribution patterns of polychaetes associated with artificially …

D Martin, J Gil, CH Chaineau, S Thorin, R Le Gall… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
The monitoring of the N'Kossa offshore oil and gas fields in the Republic of Congo allowed
us to assess the ecological traits of two polychaete species belonging to Sigambra …

Phytodetritus, chemosynthesis, and the dark biosphere: Does depth influence trophic relationships at deep-sea Barbados seeps

TA Toone, TW Washburn - Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study explores the role of photosynthetically-derived carbon in seep communities at
shallower, bathyal seeps and at deeper, abyssal seeps on the Barbados accretionary prism …