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 …

Many studies have shown that species sorting, that is, the selection by local environmental
conditions is important for the composition and assembly of bacterial communities. On the …

Large organic food falls to the deep sea–such as whale carcasses and wood logs–are
known to serve as stepping stones for the dispersal of highly adapted chemosynthetic …

Marine waterlogged woods on the ocean floor provide the foundation for an ecosystem
resulting in high biomass and potentially high macrofaunal diversity, similarly to other large …

Wood submerged in saline and oxygenated marine waters worldwide is efficiently degraded
by crustaceans and molluscs. Nevertheless, in the cold coastal waters of the Antarctic, these …

The seven Messinian microbial carbonate-rich layers cropping out in the Pollenzo section
(Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy) are interbedded with a precession-related cyclic …

Sinking of large organic food falls ie kelp, wood and whale carcasses to the oligotrophic
deep-sea floor promotes the establishment of locally highly productive and diverse …

A novel sulfate-reducing bacterium, designated C1TLV30T, was isolated from wood falls at a
depth of 1693 m in the Mediterranean Sea. Cells were motile vibrios (2–4× 0.5 µm). Strain …

The release of hydrocarbons and chemical dispersant in marine environments may disrupt
benthic ecosystems, including artificial reefs, formed by historic steel shipwrecks, and their …

Sulfur and iron concentrations in wood from three 17th century shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea,
the Ghost wreck, the Crown and the Sword, were obtained by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) …