Extreme marine environments cover more than 50% of the Earth's surface and offer many
opportunities for investigating the biological responses and adaptations of organisms to …

Meiobenthology is the science of the tiny animals that live in huge numbers in all aquatic
sediments. This fully revised and enlarged second edition emphasizes new discoveries and …

Meiofauna are an important component of deep-sea benthic communities because they are
highly abundant and play an important role in the sediment. This review describes trends in …

Vestimentiferan tubeworms, once erected at a phylum level, are now known to comprise a
part of the specialised deep-sea polychaete family Siboglinidae. Their widespread and …

Background We studied the meiofauna community at deep-sea hydrothermal vents along a
gradient of vent fluid emissions in the axial summit trought (AST) of the East Pacific Rise 9° …

Background Copepoda is one of the most prominent higher taxa with almost 80 described
species at deep-sea hydrothermal vents. The unique copepod family Dirivultidae with …

Communities in spatially fragmented deep-sea hydrothermal vents rich in polymetallic
sulfides could soon face major disturbance events due to deep-sea mineral mining, such …

Species with markedly different sizes interact when sharing the same habitat. Unravelling
mechanisms that control diversity thus requires consideration of a range of size classes. We …

Hydrothermal vent sites along the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the north-east Pacific host dense
populations of Ridgeia piscesae tubeworms that promote habitat heterogeneity and local …

Organic falls can form nutrient-rich, ephemeral hotspots of productivity and biodiversity at the
deep-sea floor, especially in food-poor abyssal plains. We report here the first wood falls …