Wood-associated fauna collected during the KuramBio expedition in the North West Pacific

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
• Main Authors: Schwabe, Enrico, Bartsch, Ilse, Błażewicz-Paszkowycz , Magdalena, Brenke, Nils, Chernyshev, Alexei V., Elsner, Nikolaus O., Fischer, Viola, Jażdżewska, Anna, Malyutina, Marina V., Miljutin, Dmitry, Miljutina, Maria, Kamenev, Gennady, Karanovic, Ivana, Maiorova, Anastassya, Würzberg, Laura
• Other Authors: Brandt, Angelika
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2015
• Subjects: Pacific; Stepping Stones; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/27547/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/27547/1/2015_Schwabe-etal-Wood-associated_DSR-2-111.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2014.08.001

Individual wood fragments obtained from Agassiz trawl samples in the abyssal plain area off the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench were analysed for faunistic components. Out of seven pieces of wood collected, only five harboured fauna and each showed distinctively different colonization patterns. In total, 257...