Feeding preferences of abyssal macrofauna inferred from in situ pulse chase experiments

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Jeffreys, Rachel M, Burke, Ciara, Jamieson, Alan J, Narayanaswamy, Bhavani E, Ruhl, Henry A, Smith, Kenneth L, Witte, Ursula
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS), University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen.The North, University of Aberdeen.Energy
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: tricarboxylic-acid cycle; deep-sea nematodes; particulate organic-carbon; antarctic peninsula shelf; benthic boundary-layer; Eastern North Pacific; time-series station; food-web structure; NE Pacific; stable-isotopes; GC Oceanography; GC; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2164/3454; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080510

This work was supported by Natural Environment Research Council Grant (UK) awarded to UW and the National Science Foundation (US) and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation awarded to KLS. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. We would like to acknowledge one anonymous reviewer and Dr. Hidetaka Nomaki for their useful comments on the manuscript. We sincerely thank the Captain, officers and crew of the R.V. Western Flyer and the pilots of the ROV Tiburon for assistance at sea during PULSE 52. We are also grateful to Jacob Ellena for logistical support/assistance at sea, Amanda Khan for helping RJ with sieving sediment cores and Markus Moeseneder for collecting samples during PULSE 53. We would also like to thank Barry Thornton for his help with the isotope analyses Peer reviewed