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 …

On the diversity of Phyllodocida (Annelida: Errantia), with a focus on Glyceridae, Goniadidae, Nephtyidae, Polynoidae, Sphaerodoridae, Syllidae, and the …

D Martin, MT Aguado, MA Fernandez Alamo… - Diversity, 2021 - mdpi.com
Phyllodocida is a clade of errantiate annelids characterized by having ventral sensory palps,
anterior enlarged cirri, axial muscular proboscis, compound chaetae (if present) with a …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of marine microbial communities around an Arctic seabed hydrocarbon seep at Scott Inlet, Baffin Bay

MA Cramm, B de Moura Neves, CCM Manning… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Seabed hydrocarbon seeps present natural laboratories for investigating responses of
marine ecosystems to petroleum input. A hydrocarbon seep near Scott Inlet, Baffin Bay, was …

A chemosynthetic ecotone—“chemotone”—in the sediments surrounding deep‐sea methane seeps

OS Ashford, S Guan, D Capone… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ecotones have been described as “biodiversity hotspots” from myriad environments, yet
have not been studied extensively in the deep ocean. While physiologically challenging …

Using deep-sea images to examine ecosystem services associated with methane seeps

JT Le, PR Girguis, LA Levin - Marine Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Deep-sea images are routinely collected during at-sea expeditions and represent a
repository of under-utilized knowledge. We leveraged dive videos collected by the remotely …

Insights from the management of offshore energy resources: Toward an ecosystem-services based management approach for deep-ocean industries

ME Bravo, MI Brandt, JMA van der Grient… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The deep ocean comprises complex ecosystems made up of numerous community and
habitat types that provide multiple services that benefit humans. As the industrialization of …

Examination of Bathymodiolus childressi nutritional sources, isotopic niches, and food-web linkages at two seeps in the US Atlantic margin using stable isotope …

AWJ Demopoulos, JP McClain-Counts… - Deep Sea Research …, 2019 - Elsevier
Chemosynthetic environments support distinct benthic communities capable of utilizing
reduced chemical compounds for nutrition. Hundreds of methane seeps have been …

Flipping for Food: The Use of a Methane Seep by Tanner Crabs (Chionoecetes tanneri)

S Seabrook, FC De Leo, AR Thurber - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Methane seep habitats are widespread chemosynthesis-based ecosystems that span
continental margins and interact with surrounding marine systems. With many of these …

Shelf and deep-water benthic macrofauna assemblages from the western Gulf of Mexico: Temporal dynamics and environmental drivers

I Hernández-Ávila, D Pech, FA Ocaña… - Marine Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Shelf and deep-water soft-bottom macrofauna were explored in the western Gulf of Mexico
in terms of species and functional trait assemblages. Their variation was analysed as …

Seascape ecology in the vicinity of a Blake Ridge cold seep

K Johnson, A Taylor, A Socha, E Barkyoumb… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Systematic surveys of the distribution of epibenthic megafaunal species relative to one
another and to environmental variables in the deep sea can lead to inferences and testable …