The discovery of new deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities in the Southern Ocean and implications for biogeography

• Published in: PLoS Biology
• Main Authors: Rogers, Alex D., Tyler, Paul A., Connelly, Douglas P., Copley, Jon T., James, Rachael, Larter, Robert D., Linse, Katrin, Mills, Rachel A., Naveira Garabato, Alfredo, Pancost, Richard D., Pearce, David A., Polunin, Nicholas V.C., German, Christopher R., Shank, Timothy, Boersch-Supan, Philip H., Alker, Belinda J., Aquilina, Alfred, Bennett, Sarah A., Clarke, Andrew, Dinley, Robert J.J., Graham, Alastair G.C., Green, Darryl R.H., Hawkes, Jeffrey A., Hepburn, Laura, Hilario, Ana, Huvenne, Veerle A.I., Marsh, Leigh, Ramirez-Llodra, Eva, Reid, William D.K., Roterman, Christopher N., Sweeting, Christopher J., Thatje, Sven, Zwirglmaier, Katrin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library Science 2012
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Pacific; Indian; East Scotia Ridge; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/16516/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/16516/1/Rogersetal2012PlosBiolESR.pdf; http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001234

Since the first discovery of deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Galápagos Rift in 1977, numerous vent sites and endemic faunal assemblages have been found along mid-ocean ridges and back-arc basins at low to mid latitudes. These discoveries have suggested the existence of separate biogeographic p...