Mammal carcasses attract a swarm of mussels in the deep Atlantic: insights into colonization and biogeography of a chemosymbiotic species

Five mammal carcasses were experimentally deployed at 1000 m depth in the Setubal Canyon (NE Atlantic) in March 2011 and the remaining bones were collected after 18 and 28 months. High numbers (1.92–6.27 individuals cm2) of small mussels were found among a diverse invertebrate assemblage colonizing...

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Autor principal: Génio, Luciana (author)
Outros Autores: Rodrigues, Clara F. (author), Guedes, Inês F. (author), Almeida, Hélio (author), Duperron, Sébastien (author), Hilário, Ana (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 1000
Assuntos:
Bathymodiolinae
Chemosymbiosis
Dispersal
Organic fall
Population structure
Settlement patterns
Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10773/16987
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:ria.ua.pt:10773/16987

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