ArticlePloS one2013
How deep-sea wood falls sustain chemosynthetic life.
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- Autochthonous production contributes to the diet of wood-boring invertebrates in temperate shallow water.Oecologia · 2021Article
- First evidence of microbial wood degradation in the coastal waters of the Antarctic.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- Alligators in the abyss: The first experimental reptilian food fall in the deep ocean.PloS one · 2019Article
- In situ development of a methanotrophic microbiome in deep-sea sediments.The ISME journal · 2019Article
- Bacteria alone establish the chemical basis of the wood-fall chemosynthetic ecosystem in the deep-sea.The ISME journal · 2018Article
- The early conversion of deep-sea wood falls into chemosynthetic hotspots revealed by in situ monitoring.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Discovery of chemoautotrophic symbiosis in the giant shipwormProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- AcidotolerantFrontiers in microbiology · 2017Article
- Temporal and Spatial Variations of Bacterial and Faunal Communities Associated with Deep-Sea Wood Falls.PloS one · 2017Article
- Ecological succession leads to chemosynthesis in mats colonizing wood in sea water.The ISME journal · 2016Article
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Abstract
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 organisms inhabiting hot vents and cold seeps. Here we investigated the biogeochemical and microbiological processes leading to the development of sulfidic niches by deploying wood colonization experiments at a depth of 1690 m in the Eastern Mediterranean for one year. Wood-boring bivalves of the genus Xylophaga played a key role in the degradation of the wood logs, facilitating the development of anoxic zones and anaerobic microbial processes such as sulfate reduction. Fauna and bacteria associated with the wood included types reported from other deep-sea habitats including chemosynthetic ecosystems, confirming the potential role of large organic food falls as biodiversity hot spots and stepping stones for vent and seep communities. Specific bacterial communities developed on and around the wood falls within one year and were distinct from freshly submerged wood and background sediments. These included sulfate-reducing and cellulolytic bacterial taxa, which are likely to play an important role in the utilization of wood by chemosynthetic life and other deep-sea animals.
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