Are abyssal scavenging amphipod assemblages linked to climate cycles?

• Main Authors: Horton, Tammy, Thurston, Michael H., Vlierboom, Rianna, Gutteridge, Zoe, Pebody, Corinne A., Gates, Andrew R., Bett, Brian J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Chevreux; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/444454/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/444454/1/1_s2.0_S0079661120300574_main.pdf

Scavenging amphipods are a numerically dominant and taxonomically diverse group that are key necrophages in deep-sea environments. They contribute to the detrital food web by scavenging large food-falls and provide a food source for other organisms, at bathyal and abyssal depths. Samples of this ass...