Molluscs from a shallow-water whale-fall and their affinities with adjacent benthic communities on the Swedish west coast
We conducted a species-level study of molluscs associated with a 5-m long carcass of a minke whale at a depth of 125 m in the Kosterfjord (North Sea, Sweden). The whale-fall community was quantitatively compared with the community commonly living in the surrounding soft-bottom sediments. Five years...
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ftunivplympearl:oai:pearl.plymouth.ac.uk:10026.1/3333 2024-05-19T07:44:04+00:00 Molluscs from a shallow-water whale-fall and their affinities with adjacent benthic communities on the Swedish west coast Danise, S Dominici, S Glover, AG Dahlgren, TG 2014-01-02 3-16 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3333 https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2013.793811 en eng Informa UK Limited http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3331 10026.1/3331 http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3332 10026.1/3332 ISSN:1745-1000 ISSN:1745-1019 E-ISSN:1745-1019 1745-1000 1745-1019 http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3333 doi:10.1080/17451000.2013.793811 Not known Whale Thyasiridae organic-enriched sediments chemosynthesis North Atlantic journal-article Article 2014 ftunivplympearl https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2013.793811 2024-05-01T00:05:12Z We conducted a species-level study of molluscs associated with a 5-m long carcass of a minke whale at a depth of 125 m in the Kosterfjord (North Sea, Sweden). The whale-fall community was quantitatively compared with the community commonly living in the surrounding soft-bottom sediments. Five years after the deployment of the dead whale at the sea floor, the sediments around the carcass were dominated by the bivalve Thyasira sarsi, which is known to contain endosymbiotic sulphur-oxidizing bacteria, while background sediments were dominated by another thyasirid, T. equalis, less dependent on chemosynthesis for its nutrition. The Kosterfjord samples were further compared at the species level with mollusc abundance data derived from the literature, including samples from different marine settings of the west coast of Sweden (active methane seep, fjords, coastal and open marine environments). The results show high similarity between the Kosterfjord whale-fall community and the community that developed in one of the Swedish fjords (Gullmar Fjord) during hypoxic conditions. This study indicates that at shallow-water whale-falls, the sulphophilic stage of the ecological succession is characterized by generalist chemosynthetic bivalves commonly living in organic-rich, sulphidic environments. © 2014 Taylor & Francis. Article in Journal/Newspaper minke whale North Atlantic PEARL (Plymouth Electronic Archiv & ResearchLibrary, Plymouth University) Marine Biology Research 10 1 3 16 |
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We conducted a species-level study of molluscs associated with a 5-m long carcass of a minke whale at a depth of 125 m in the Kosterfjord (North Sea, Sweden). The whale-fall community was quantitatively compared with the community commonly living in the surrounding soft-bottom sediments. Five years after the deployment of the dead whale at the sea floor, the sediments around the carcass were dominated by the bivalve Thyasira sarsi, which is known to contain endosymbiotic sulphur-oxidizing bacteria, while background sediments were dominated by another thyasirid, T. equalis, less dependent on chemosynthesis for its nutrition. The Kosterfjord samples were further compared at the species level with mollusc abundance data derived from the literature, including samples from different marine settings of the west coast of Sweden (active methane seep, fjords, coastal and open marine environments). The results show high similarity between the Kosterfjord whale-fall community and the community that developed in one of the Swedish fjords (Gullmar Fjord) during hypoxic conditions. This study indicates that at shallow-water whale-falls, the sulphophilic stage of the ecological succession is characterized by generalist chemosynthetic bivalves commonly living in organic-rich, sulphidic environments. © 2014 Taylor & Francis. |
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Danise, S Dominici, S Glover, AG Dahlgren, TG |
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Danise, S Dominici, S Glover, AG Dahlgren, TG |
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Molluscs from a shallow-water whale-fall and their affinities with adjacent benthic communities on the Swedish west coast |
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Molluscs from a shallow-water whale-fall and their affinities with adjacent benthic communities on the Swedish west coast |
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Molluscs from a shallow-water whale-fall and their affinities with adjacent benthic communities on the Swedish west coast |
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Molluscs from a shallow-water whale-fall and their affinities with adjacent benthic communities on the Swedish west coast |
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Molluscs from a shallow-water whale-fall and their affinities with adjacent benthic communities on the Swedish west coast |
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molluscs from a shallow-water whale-fall and their affinities with adjacent benthic communities on the swedish west coast |
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