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

• Published in: PLoS Biology
• Main Authors: Rogers, Alex D., Tyler, Paul A., Connelly, Douglas P., Copley, Jon T., James, Rachael, Larter, Robert D., Linse, Katrin, Mills, Rachel A., Garabato, Alfredo Naveira, Pancost, Richard D., Pearce, David A., Polunin, Nicholas V. C., German, Christopher R., Shank, Timothy, Boersch-Supan, Philipp H., Alker, Belinda J., Aquilina, Alfred, Bennett, Sarah A., Clarke, Andrew, Dinley, Robert J. J., Graham, Alastair G. C., Green, Darryl R. H., Hawkes, Jeffrey A., Hepburn, Laura, Hilario, Ana, Huvenne, Veerle A. I., Marsh, Leigh, Ramirez-Llodra, Eva, Reid, William D. K., Roterman, Christopher N., Sweeting, Christopher J., Thatje, Sven, Zwirglmaier, Katrin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: East scotia ridge; Mid-atlantic ridge; Morphological evidence; Molecular phylogeny; Bransfield Strait; Sequence data; West Pacific; Marine; Invertebrates; Evolution; Antarctic; East Scotia Ridge; Galapagos; Indian; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Pacific; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/the-discovery-of-new-deepsea-hydrothermal-vent-communities-in-the-southern-ocean-and-implications-for-biogeography(33672009-beba-40a3-bdcc-d5cd8ee81dd5).html; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001234; https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/10023/4716/1/rogers2012plosbiologye1001234.pdf

Since the first discovery of deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Galapagos 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 p...