The benthic community of the Great Meteor Bank ...
No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.This qualitative study is part of an interdisciplinary analysis of the ecology of the Great Meteor Seamount and it will answer the basic questions of composition and origin of the invertebrate faunal community. During the cruise M42/...
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ASC 2002 - M - Theme session
2024
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.25443115.v1 https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/The_benthic_community_of_the_Great_Meteor_Bank/25443115/1 |
| Summary: | No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.This qualitative study is part of an interdisciplinary analysis of the ecology of the Great Meteor Seamount and it will answer the basic questions of composition and origin of the invertebrate faunal community. During the cruise M42/3 in the subtropical north Atlantic to the 'Great Meteor Bank' in 1998 a variety of benthic sampling gear was employed on 48 stations. Only the macrobenthic invertebrates were part of this study. In total 155 species from 18 different major invertebrate taxa have been identified. For 66 of these species it was the first record on the Seamount, 19 had already been known, nine of the species are endemic on the Bank. Six species are entirely new to science. The dominating North-East-Atlantic faunal elements (64%), the low number of African elements (30%) and of endemic species (6%) contradict the general acceptance that the seamount's ecology is determined by a faunal community which evolved through isolation. ... |
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