Cold: The deep sea has extremely low temperatures. In fact, the beginning of the Abyssal Zone is conveniently defined as the area where water plummets to 4 degrees Celsius. At the ocean’s average depth off 4000
The deep sea, the largest biome on Earth, has a series of characteristics that make this environment both distinct from other marine and land ecosystems and unique for the entire planet. This review describes these patterns and processes, from geological settings to biological processes, biodiversity...
The deep sea biodiversity and conservation collection The deep sea, defined as ocean depths below 200 m, encompasses vast and largely unexplored habitats, such as abyssal plains, hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, and ocean trenches. This environment supports a remarkable diversity of life forms adapted...
ecotype; metagenomics; SAR11; single-cell genomics; deep ocean Introduction Characterized by darkness, average temperatures of approximately 2–4 1C, increased hydrostatic pres- sure and general oligotrophy, the relatively extreme environment of the deep ocean is also the largest biome on the Earth....
Cold-seep habitat mapping: high-resolution spatial characterization of the blake ridge diapir seep field. Deep Sea Res Part II-Top Stud Oceanogr 2013;92:183–8. [73] Costello MJ, Vanden BE. 'Ocean biodiversity informatics': a new era in marine biology research and management. Mar Ecol Prog...
Scientists continuously discover new life forms, many from novel habitats such as chemosynthetic systems, such as hydrothermal vents and cold-water hydrocarbon seeps, where uniquely adapted species thrive in conditions that would be toxic to most life forms. The deep ocean hosts representatives of ...
There is a small chance to find a Minecraft shipwreck in the frozen ocean and deep frozen ocean biomes. These are chilly spots where shipwrecks are a rare sight. If you find one here, give yourself a pat on the back – you've struck ice-cold gold! And don’t forget the river biomes...
Ocean Colour biogeochemical dataset. Model-derived values were obtained for the depth of the surface mixed layer (m), bottom seawater temperature (°C), bottom seawater oxygen concentration (mL/L), bottom seawater salinity, and bottom current magnitude (m/s) from the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean ...
Nevertheless, vertical transmission of these genes in deep-sea cold seeps, like what has been observed for nitrogenases in the surface ocean, cannot be ruled out25. Intra-population genetic diversity (i.e., microdiversity) may increase the fitness of a genotype in ecosystems with changing con-...
Kellogg CA, Goldsmith DB: Cold-water coral microbiomes (Lophelia pertusa) from Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean: raw data. In.: U.S. Geological Survey data release; 2017. https://doi.org/10.5066/F7M32SXM 34. Kellogg CA, Goldsmith DB: Cold-water coral microbiomes (Primnoa spp.) from...