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Extraordinarily high biomass benthic community on Southern Ocean seamounts
We describe a previously unknown assemblage of seamount-associated megabenthos that has by far the highest peak biomass reported in the deep-sea outside of vent communities. The assemblage was found at depths of 2–2.5 km on rocky geomorphic features off the southeast coast of Australia, in an area n...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3216600/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22355636 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00119 |