Editors:
- 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)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
'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
Editors and Affiliations
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, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Steffen Kiel
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Vent and Seep Biota
Book Subtitle: Aspects from Microbes to Ecosystems
Editors: Steffen Kiel
Series Title: Topics in Geobiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9572-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9571-8Published: 17 September 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3339-8Published: 06 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9572-5Published: 21 September 2010
Series ISSN: 0275-0120
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 490
Topics: Biogeosciences, Life Sciences, general, Freshwater & Marine Ecology