Biodiversity Patterns and Processes on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

  • Michael Vecchione
  • , Odd Aksel Bergstad
  • , Ingvar Byrkjedal
  • , Tone Falkenhaug
  • , Andrey V. Gebruk
  • , Olav Rune Godø
  • , Astthor Gislason
  • , Mikko Heino
  • , Åge S. Høines
  • , Gui M.M. Menezes
  • , Uwe Piatkowski
  • , Imants G. Priede
  • , Henrik Skov
  • , Henrik Søiland
  • , Tracey Sutton
  • , Thomas De Lange Wenneck

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLife in the World's Oceans
Subtitle of host publicationDiversity, Distribution, and Abundance
PublisherWiley - Blackwell
Pages103-122
Number of pages20
ISBN (Print)9781405192972
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 23 2010
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • General Engineering

Keywords

  • Biodiversity patterns and processes on the mid-Atlantic ridge
  • Demersal fish biomass and abundance - declining with depth from summit of ridge to middle rises
  • Faunal composition and biodiversity
  • Food webs and carbon fluxes
  • MAR-ECO epibenthic invertebrate species - new to science
  • MAR-ECO, first comprehensive international exploration - of substantial section of global mid-ocean ridge system
  • Pelagic nekton - fishes and cephalopods
  • Primary gap in current knowledge - determination of temporal variation in faunal composition, abundance and ecology

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