The Discovery of New Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Communities in the Southern Ocean and Implications for Biogeography

• Published in: PLoS Biology
• Main Authors: Rogers, Alex D., Tyler, Paul A., Connelly, Douglas P., Copley, Jon T., James, Rachael, Larter, Robert D., Linse, Katrin, Mills, Rachel A., Naveira Garabato, Alberto, Pancost, Richard D., Pearce, David A., Polunin, Nicholas V. C., German, Christopher R., Shank, Timothy, Boersch-Supan, Philipp H., Alker, Belinda J., Aquilina, Alfred, Bennett, Sarah A., Clarke, Andrew, Dinley, Robert J.J., Graham, Alastair G.C., Green, Darryl R.H., Hawkes, Jeffrey A., Hepburn, Laura, Hilario, Ana, Huvenne, Veerle A.I., Marsh, Leigh, Ramirez-Llodra, Eva, Reid, William D.K., Roterman, Christopher N., Sweeting, Christopher J., Thatje, Sven, Zwirglmaier, Katrin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Scotia Ridge; Indian; Pacific; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/336367/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/336367/1/Rogersetal2012PlosBiolESR.pdf

Since the first discovery of deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Galápagos Rift in 1977, numerous vent sites and endemic faunal assemblages have been found along mid-ocean ridges and back-arc basins at low to mid latitudes. These discoveries have suggested the existence of separate biogeographic p...