Are abyssal scavenging amphipod assemblages linked to climate cycles?

• Published in: Progress in Oceanography
• Main Authors: Horton, Tammy, Thurston, Michael H., Vlierboom, Rianna, Gutteridge, Zoe, Pebody, Corinne A., Gates, Andrew R., Bett, Brian J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Chevreux; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/527939/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/527939/1/1-s2.0-S0079661120300574-main.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102318

Scavenging amphipods are a numerically dominant and taxonomically diverse group that are key necrophages in deep-sea environments. They contribute to the detrital food web by scavenging large food-falls and provide a food source for other organisms, at bathyal and abyssal depths. Samples of this ass...