Food web ecology in Gulf of Mexico hydrocarbon seep communities

• Main Author: Becker, Erin Leigh
• Other Authors: Charles Fisher, Katriona Shea, Tracy Langkilde, Doug Miller
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Penn State 2010
• Subjects: Biology; Handle The; Lophelia pertusa
• Online Access: http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-5632/index.html

Hydrocarbon seeps serve as oases of local primary production in the otherwise food-poor deep sea. Animals that have adapted to handle the toxic chemistry in these environments thrive and form dense high-biomass communities. In this thesis, stable isotopes were used to explore food web interactions i...