Fauna of the Kemp Caldera and its upper bathyal hydrothermal vents (South Sandwich Arc, Antarctica)

• Published in: Royal Society Open Science
• Main Authors: Linse, Katrin, Copley, Jonathan T., Connelly, Douglas P., Larter, Robert, Pearce, David A., Polunin, Nick V.C., Rogers, Alex D., Chen, Chong, Clarke, Andrew, Glover, Adrian G., Graham, Alastair G.C., Huvenne, Veerle A.I., Marsh, Leigh, Reid, William D.K., Roterman, C. Nikolai, Sweeting, Christopher J., Zwirglmaier, Katrin, Tyler, Paul A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Royal Society 2019
• Subjects: Southern Ocean; East Scotia Ridge; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524199/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524199/1/Linse%20et%20al%20rsos191501.pdf; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.191501

Faunal assemblages at hydrothermal vents associated with island-arc volcanism are less well known than those at vents on mid-ocean ridges and back-arc spreading centres. This study characterizes chemosynthetic biotopes at active hydrothermal vents discovered at the Kemp Caldera in the South Sandwich...