Bone-eating worms and wood-eating bivalves: characterising the ecology of deep-sea organic falls from multiple ocean basins

• Main Author: Amon, Diva Joan
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic; Bransfield Strait; Indian; Smith Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; antarcticus
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/361854/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/361854/1/Amon%252C%2520Diva_PhD.pdf

Large organic inputs to the deep seafloor such as the remains of whales or pieces of wood are termed ‘organic falls’. Despite over 30 years of research on these interesting deep-sea habitats, we still have only a basic understanding of their taxonomic composition and for some ocean basins, no natura...