The discovery of new deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities in the Southern ocean and implications for biogeography

• Published in: PLoS Biology
• Main Authors: Eisen, Jonathan, Rogers, Alex, Tyler, Paul, Connelly, Douglas, Copley, Jon, James, Rachael, Larter, Robert, Linse, Katrin, Mills, Rachel, Garabato, Alfredo Naveira, Pancost, Richard, Pearce, David, Polunin, Nicholas, German, Christopher, Shank, Timothy, Boersch-Supan, Philipp, Alker, Belinda, Aquilina, Alfred, Bennett, Sarah, Clarke, Andrew, Dinley, Robert, Graham, Alastair, Green, Darryl, Hawkes, Jeffrey, Hepburn, Laura, Hilario, Ana, Huvenne, Veerle, Marsh, Leigh, Ramirez-Llodra, Eva, Reid, William, Roterman, Christopher, Sweeting, Christopher, Thatje, Sven, Zwirglmaier, Katrin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2012
• Subjects: C700 Molecular Biology; Biophysics and Biochemistry; Antarctic; East Scotia Ridge; Indian; Pacific; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/11068/; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001234; https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/11068/1/Pearce_D_Output_2_Discovery.pdf

Since the first discovery of deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Gala´pagos 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...