Living inside a sponge: Foraminifera at the Karasik Seamount (Central Arctic Ocean)

• Main Author: Wollenburg, Jutta
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Gakkel Ridge; Needles The; Foraminifera*
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/47358/; https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/EGU2018-15644.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.58340d2f-8e7c-4a21-b881-e34cbae1a85d

Seamounts are unique deep sea environments and often regarded as diversity hot spots. The Karasik Seamount is situated on the Gakkel Ridge, an active mid ocean ridge in the central Arctic Ocean (87◦N 61◦E), in a completely ice covered, oligotrophic region. During the German F/S Polarstern 101 expedi...