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 …

Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families

P Bouchet, JP Rocroi, B Hausdorf, A Kaim, Y Kano… - Malacologia, 2017 - BioOne
ABSTRACT 2,604 names at the rank of subtribe, tribe, subfamily, family and superfamily
have been proposed for Recent and fossil gastropods, and another 35 for …

Pliocene stratigraphic paleobiology in Tuscany and the fossil record of marine megafauna

S Dominici, S Danise, M Benvenuti - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Tuscany has a rich Pliocene record of marine megafauna (MM), including mysticetes,
odontocetes, sirenians and seals among the mammals, and six orders of sharks among the …

Time-series analysis of six whale-fall communities in Monterey Canyon, California, USA

L Lundsten, KL Schlining, K Frasier, SB Johnson… - Deep Sea Research …, 2010 - Elsevier
Dead whale carcasses that sink to the deep seafloor introduce a massive pulse of energy
capable of hosting dynamic communities of organisms in an otherwise food-limited …

Fish food in the deep sea: revisiting the role of large food-falls

ND Higgs, AR Gates, DOB Jones - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The carcasses of large pelagic vertebrates that sink to the seafloor represent a bounty of
food to the deep-sea benthos, but natural food-falls have been rarely observed. Here were …

Molecular taxonomy and naming of five cryptic species of Alviniconcha snails (Gastropoda: Abyssochrysoidea) from hydrothermal vents

SB Johnson, A Warén, V Tunnicliffe… - Systematics and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Large symbiont-hosting snails of the genus Alviniconcha (Gastropoda: Abyssochrysidae)
are among the dominant inhabitants of hydrothermal vents in the Western Pacific and Indian …

Phylogeny of the gastropod superfamily Cerithioidea using morphology and molecules

EE Strong, DJ Colgan, JM Healy… - Zoological Journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The Cerithioidea is an ecologically important superfamily of basal Caenogastropoda with
speciose marine, brackish water, and freshwater lineages primarily in tropical, subtropical …

Contrasted phylogeographic patterns of hydrothermal vent gastropods along South West Pacific: Woodlark Basin, a possible contact zone and/or step**-stone

C Poitrimol, É Thiébaut, C Daguin-Thiébaut, AS Le Port… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Understanding drivers of biodiversity patterns is essential to evaluate the potential impact of
deep-sea mining on ecosystems resilience. While the South West Pacific forms an …

On the instability and evolutionary age of deep-sea chemosynthetic communities

RC Vrijenhoek - Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in …, 2013 - Elsevier
Though not directly dependent on photosynthesis, deep-sea chemosynthetic communities
have not been sheltered from catastrophic changes affecting Earth's photic zone. Instead …

Allopatric and Sympatric Drivers of Speciation in Alviniconcha Hydrothermal Vent Snails

C Breusing, SB Johnson, V Tunnicliffe… - Molecular Biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Despite significant advances in our understanding of speciation in the marine environment,
the mechanisms underlying evolutionary diversification in deep-sea habitats remain poorly …