Spatial Differences in East Scotia Ridge Hydrothermal Vent Food Webs: Influences of Chemistry, Microbiology and Predation on Trophodynamics

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Reid, William D. K., Sweeting, Christopher J., Wigham, Ben D., Zwirglmaier, Katrin, Hawkes, Jeffrey A., McGill, Rona A. R., Linse, Katrin, Polunin, Nicholas V. C.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2013
• Subjects: Research Article; Antarctic; Calvin; East Scotia Ridge; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3676328; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23762393; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065553

The hydrothermal vents on the East Scotia Ridge are the first to be explored in the Antarctic and are dominated by large peltospiroid gastropods, stalked barnacles (Vulcanolepas sp.) and anomuran crabs (Kiwa sp.) but their food webs are unknown. Vent fluid and macroconsumer samples were collected at...