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The Vent and Seep Biota

Aspects from Microbes to Ecosystems

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Editors:
  1. Steffen Kiel

    1. , Institut für Geowissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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  • Highlights recent discoveries, developments, and advances in a broad range of vent and seep-related topics
  • Covers the most surprising scientific discoveries of the past three decades of oasis of life around black smokers and hydrocarbon seeps in the deep-sea
  • Features explanatory illustrations, maps, and new images of vent and seep animals and their habitats
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology (TGBI, volume 33)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Chemosynthetically-Driven Ecosystems in the Deep Sea

    • Steffen Kiel, Paul A. Tyler
    Pages 1-14

  3. Genetics and Evolution of Deep-Sea Chemosynthetic Bacteria and Their Invertebrate Hosts

    • Robert C. Vrijenhoek
    Pages 15-49

  4. Microbial Habitats Associated with Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Invertebrates: Insights from Microanalysis and Geochemical Modeling

    • Nadine Le Bris, Françoise Gaill
    Pages 51-71

  5. Microbial Chemofossils in Specific Marine Hydrothermal and Methane Cold Seep Settings

    • Martin Blumenberg
    Pages 73-106

  6. Chemosymbiotic Bivalves

    • John D. Taylor, Emily A. Glover
    Pages 107-135

  7. The Diversity of Deep-Sea Mussels and Their Bacterial Symbioses

    • Sébastien Duperron
    Pages 137-167

  8. Gastropods from Recent Hot Vents and Cold Seeps: Systematics, Diversity and Life Strategies

    • Takenori Sasaki, Anders Warén, Yasunori Kano, Takashi Okutani, Katsunori Fujikura
    Pages 169-254

  9. The Fossil Record of Vent and Seep Mollusks

    • Steffen Kiel
    Pages 255-277

  10. Brachiopods from Ancient Hydrocarbon Seeps and Hydrothermal Vents

    • Michael R. Sandy
    Pages 279-314

  11. Unusual Habitats and Organisms Associated with the Cold Seeps of the Gulf of Mexico

    • Erik E. Cordes, Stéphane Hourdez, Harry H. Roberts
    Pages 315-331

  12. Biological Communities at Marine Shallow-Water Vent and Seep Sites

    • Paul R. Dando
    Pages 333-378

  13. Japan: Vents and Seeps in Close Proximity

    • Hiromi Watanabe, Katsunori Fujikura, Shigeaki Kojima, Jun-Ichi Miyazaki, Yoshihiro Fujiwara
    Pages 379-401

  14. Shaping Vent and Seep Communities: Habitat Provision and Modification by Foundation Species

    • Breea Govenar
    Pages 403-432

  15. An Eldorado for Paleontologists: The Cenozoic Seeps of Western Washington State, USA

    • Steffen Kiel
    Pages 433-448

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 485-487
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Oases of life around black smokers and hydrocarbon seeps in the deep-sea were among the most surprising scientific discoveries of the past three decades. These ecosystems are dominated by animals having symbiotic relationships with chemoautotrophic bacteria. Their study developed into an international, interdisciplinary venture where scientists develop new technologies to work in some of the most extreme places on Earth. This book highlights discoveries, developments, and advances made during the past 10 years, including remarkable cases of host-symbiont coevolution, worms living on frozen methane, and a fossil record providing insights into the dynamic history of these ecosystems since the Paleozoic.

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'A welcome look at vents and seep biology in tandem, this synthesis provides more than the sum of two ecosystems'. Lisa Levin, Integrative Oceanography Division Scripps Institution of Oceanography, California, USA

'The discovery of chemically-reducing seafloor vents and the lush communities that they host rates as one of the most exciting scientific discoveries of the past century.  As our exploration of the oceans has continued the wide diversity of chemosynthetic ecosystems present (vents, seeps, large organic falls, oxygen minimum zones) has continued to expand and, so too, our appreciation of the extremes under which life can exist.  This field is now helping to shape, and revealing ideal natural laboratories in which to test, fast-changing theories on the origins of life on Earth and the potential for life beyond our home planet.  This timely compilation of papers from an international team of experts, therefore, should provide a compelling read for a broad spectrum of life, ocean, earth and space scientists, ranging from the graduate student level to the most senior professionals in any of the above disciplines.' C.R.German, Chief Scientist for Deep Submergence, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA

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  • , Institut für Geowissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    Steffen Kiel

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