Complex sublinear burrows in the deep sea may be constructed by amphipods
Trails, burrows, and other “life traces” in sediment provide important evidence for understanding ecology—both of the maker and of other users—and behavioral information often lacking in inaccessible ecosystems, such as the deep sea or those that are already extinct. Here, we report novel sublinear...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:10018091 2023-05-15T15:43:47+02:00 Complex sublinear burrows in the deep sea may be constructed by amphipods Brandt, Angelika Chen, Chong Tandberg, Anne Helene S. Miguez‐Salas, Olmo Sigwart, Julia D. 2023-03-16 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10018091/ https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9867 en eng John Wiley and Sons Inc. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10018091/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9867 © 2023 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Ecol Evol Nature Notes Text 2023 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9867 2023-03-19T02:11:14Z Trails, burrows, and other “life traces” in sediment provide important evidence for understanding ecology—both of the maker and of other users—and behavioral information often lacking in inaccessible ecosystems, such as the deep sea or those that are already extinct. Here, we report novel sublinear rows of openings in the abyssal plains of the North Pacific, and the first plausible hypothesis for a maker of these constructions. Enigmatic serial burrows have now been recorded in the Pacific and Atlantic deep sea. Based on image and specimen evidence, we propose that these Bering Sea excavations represent amphipod burrows, while the maker of the previously known Mid‐Atlantic Ridge constructions remains undetermined. We propose that maerid amphipods could create the Pacific burrows by eating–digging horizontally below the surface along a nutrient‐rich layer in the sediment, making the serial openings above them as they go, for conveniently removing excavated sediment as the excavation progresses. These striking structures contribute to local biodiversity, and their maker could be considered a deep‐sea ecosystem engineer. Text Bering Sea PubMed Central (PMC) Bering Sea Burrows ENVELOPE(163.650,163.650,-74.300,-74.300) Mid-Atlantic Ridge Pacific Ecology and Evolution 13 3 |
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Trails, burrows, and other “life traces” in sediment provide important evidence for understanding ecology—both of the maker and of other users—and behavioral information often lacking in inaccessible ecosystems, such as the deep sea or those that are already extinct. Here, we report novel sublinear rows of openings in the abyssal plains of the North Pacific, and the first plausible hypothesis for a maker of these constructions. Enigmatic serial burrows have now been recorded in the Pacific and Atlantic deep sea. Based on image and specimen evidence, we propose that these Bering Sea excavations represent amphipod burrows, while the maker of the previously known Mid‐Atlantic Ridge constructions remains undetermined. We propose that maerid amphipods could create the Pacific burrows by eating–digging horizontally below the surface along a nutrient‐rich layer in the sediment, making the serial openings above them as they go, for conveniently removing excavated sediment as the excavation progresses. These striking structures contribute to local biodiversity, and their maker could be considered a deep‐sea ecosystem engineer. |
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Complex sublinear burrows in the deep sea may be constructed by amphipods |
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Complex sublinear burrows in the deep sea may be constructed by amphipods |
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