Whale-fall ecosystems: recent insights into ecology, paleoecology, and evolution

CR Smith, AG Glover, T Treude… - Annual Review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Whale falls produce remarkable organic-and sulfide-rich habitat islands at the seafloor. The
past decade has seen a dramatic increase in studies of modern and fossil whale remains …

Cryptic polychaete diversity: a review

A Nygren - Zoologica Scripta, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This review summarises the current knowledge on cryptic species of polychaetes, one of the
most dominant taxa in marine communities, and gives a brief overview of the different …

Significant taxon sampling gaps in DNA databases limit the operational use of marine macrofauna metabarcoding

JT Hestetun, E Bye-Ingebrigtsen, RH Nilsson… - Marine Biodiversity, 2020 - Springer
Significant effort is spent on monitoring of benthic ecosystems through government funding
or indirectly as a cost of business, and metabarcoding of environmental DNA samples has …

Comparative composition, diversity and trophic ecology of sediment macrofauna at vents, seeps and organic falls

AF Bernardino, LA Levin, AR Thurber, CR Smith - PLoS One, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Sediments associated with hydrothermal venting, methane seepage and large organic falls
such as whale, wood and plant detritus create deep-sea networks of soft-sediment habitats …

The current state of Eunicida (Annelida) systematics and biodiversity

J Zanol, LF Carrera-Parra, TM Steiner, ACZ Amaral… - Diversity, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this study, we analyze the current state of knowledge on extant Eunicida systematics,
morphology, feeding, life history, habitat, ecology, distribution patterns, local diversity and …

Segmented worms (Phylum Annelida): a celebration of twenty years of progress through Zootaxa and call for action on the taxonomic work that remains

WF Magalhaes, P Hutchings… - …, 2021 - researchers.mq.edu.au
Zootaxa has been the leading journal on invertebrate systematics especially within
Annelida. Our current estimates indicate annelids include approximately 20,200 valid …

The discovery of a natural whale fall in the Antarctic deep sea

DJ Amon, AG Glover, H Wiklund, L Marsh… - Deep Sea Research …, 2013 - Elsevier
Large cetacean carcasses at the deep-sea floor, known as 'whale falls', provide a resource
for generalist-scavenging species, chemosynthetic fauna related to those from hydrothermal …

Application of polychaetes in (de) coupled integrated aquaculture: an approach for fish waste bioremediation

MAJ Nederlof, J Fang, TG Dahlgren… - Aquaculture …, 2020 - int-res.com
Development of benthic components within integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA)
systems warrants more attention, and the development of polychaetes as an extractive …

The annelid community of a natural deep-sea whale fall off eastern Australia

MN Georgieva, H Wiklund, DA Ramos… - Records of the …, 2023 - researchers.cdu.edu.au
In the deep ocean, whale falls (deceased whales that sink to the seafloor) act as a boost of
productivity in this otherwise generally food-limited setting, nourishing organisms from …

Impact of deep-water fish farms on benthic macrofauna communities under different hydrodynamic conditions

T Valdemarsen, PK Hansen, A Ervik… - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2015 - Elsevier
In this study the environmental impacts of two fish farms located over deep water (180–190
m) were compared. MC-Farm was located at a site with slightly higher water currents (mean …