FN Archimer Export Format
PT J
TI Does Presence of a Mid-Ocean Ridge Enhance Biomass and Biodiversity?
BT 
AF PRIEDE, Imants G.
   BERGSTAD, Odd Aksel
   MILLER, Peter I.
   VECCHIONE, Michael
   GEBRUK, Andrey
   FALKENHAUG, Tone
   BILLETT, David S. M.
   CRAIG, Jessica
   DALE, Andrew C.
   SHIELDS, Mark A.
   TILSTONE, Gavin H.
   SUTTON, Tracey T.
   GOODAY, Andrew J.
   INALL, Mark E.
   JONES, Daniel O. B.
   MARTINEZ-VICENTE, Victor
   MENEZES, Gui M.
   NIEDZIELSKI, Tomasz
   SIGUROSSON, Porsteinn
   ROTHE, Nina
   ROGACHEVA, Antonina
   ALT, Claudia H. S.
   BRAND, Timothy
   ABELL, Richard
   BRIERLEY, Andrew S.
   COUSINS, Nicola J.
   CROCKARD, Deborah
   HOELZEL, A. Rus
   HOINES, Age
   LETESSIER, Tom B.
   READ, Jane F.
   SHIMMIELD, Tracy
   COX, Martin J.
   GALBRAITH, John K.
   GORDON, John D. M.
   HORTON, Tammy
   NEAT, Francis
   LORANCE, Pascal
AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:4;5:5;6:2;7:6;8:1;9:7;10:1;11:3;12:8;13:6;14:7;15:6;16:3;17:9;18:10;19:11;20:6;21:5;22:6;23:7;24:7;25:12;26:1;27:1;28:13;29:14;30:15;31:6;32:7;33:16;34:17;35:7;36:6;37:18;38:19;
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C1 Univ Aberdeen, Inst Biol & Environm Sci, Oceanlab, Aberdeen, Scotland.
   Inst Marine Res, Flodevigen, His, Norway.
   Plymouth Marine Lab, Remote Sensing Grp, Plymouth, Devon, England.
   Smithsonian Inst, Natl Museum Nat Hist, Natl Systemat Lab, Natl Marine Fisheries Serv,NOAA, Washington, DC 20560 USA.
   Russian Acad Sci, PP Shirshov Inst Oceanol, Moscow, Russia.
   Natl Oceanog Ctr, Southampton, Hants, England.
   Scottish Marine Inst, Scottish Assoc Marine Sci, Oban, Argyll, Scotland.
   Coll William & Mary, Virginia Inst Marine Sci, Gloucester Point, VA USA.
   Univ Azores, Dept Oceanog & Fisheries, Horta, Faial, Portugal.
   Univ Wroclaw, Inst Geog & Reg Dev, Dept Geoinformat & Cartog, PL-50138 Wroclaw, Poland.
   Marine Res Inst, IS-121 Reykjavik, Iceland.
   Univ St Andrews, Scottish Oceans Inst, St Andrews KY16 9AJ, Fife, Scotland.
   Univ Durham, Sch Biol & Biomed Sci, Durham, England.
   Inst Marine Res, N-5024 Bergen, Norway.
   Univ Western Australia, Oceans Inst, Ctr Marine Futures, Perth, WA 6009, Australia.
   Australian Antarctic Div, Southern Ocean Ecosyst Change Dept, Kingston, Tas, Australia.
   NOAA, Northeast Fisheries Sci Ctr, Woods Hole, MA USA.
   Marine Scotland Sci, Marine Lab, Aberdeen, Scotland.
   Inst Francais Rech Exploitat Mer, Nantes, France.
C2 UNIV ABERDEEN, UK
   INST MARINE RES FLODEVIGEN, NORWAY
   PML, UK
   NMNH SMITHSONIAN INST, USA
   PP SHIRSHOV OCEANOL INST, RUSSIA
   NOC, UK
   SAMS SCOTLAND, UK
   VIRGINIA INST MARINE SCI, USA
   UNIV AZORES, PORTUGAL
   UNIV WROCLAW, POLAND
   MAR RES INST, ICELAND
   UNIV ST ANDREWS, UK
   UNIV DURHAM, UK
   INST MARINE RES BERGEN, NORWAY
   UNIV WESTERN AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA
   AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIV, AUSTRALIA
   NOAA, USA
   FRS, UK
   IFREMER, FRANCE
SI NANTES
SE PDG-RBE-EMH
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   DOAJ
   copubli-europe
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 3.534
TC 47
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00135/24650/22683.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR PROSPEC
   TALUS
BO Thalassa
AB In contrast to generally sparse biological communities in open-ocean settings, seamounts and ridges are perceived as areas of elevated productivity and biodiversity capable of supporting commercial fisheries. We investigated the origin of this apparent biological enhancement over a segment of the North Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) using sonar, corers, trawls, traps, and a remotely operated vehicle to survey habitat, biomass, and biodiversity. Satellite remote sensing provided information on flow patterns, thermal fronts, and primary production, while sediment traps measured export flux during 2007–2010. The MAR, 3,704,404 km2 in area, accounts for 44.7% lower bathyal habitat (800–3500 m depth) in the North Atlantic and is dominated by fine soft sediment substrate (95% of area) on a series of flat terraces with intervening slopes either side of the ridge axis contributing to habitat heterogeneity. The MAR fauna comprises mainly species known from continental margins with no evidence of greater biodiversity. Primary production and export flux over the MAR were not enhanced compared with a nearby reference station over the Porcupine Abyssal Plain. Biomasses of benthic macrofauna and megafauna were similar to global averages at the same depths totalling an estimated 258.9 kt C over the entire lower bathyal north MAR. A hypothetical flat plain at 3500 m depth in place of the MAR would contain 85.6 kt C, implying an increase of 173.3 kt C attributable to the presence of the Ridge. This is approximately equal to 167 kt C of estimated pelagic biomass displaced by the volume of the MAR. There is no enhancement of biological productivity over the MAR; oceanic bathypelagic species are replaced by benthic fauna otherwise unable to survive in the mid ocean. We propose that globally sea floor elevation has no effect on deep sea biomass; pelagic plus benthic biomass is constant within a given surface productivity regime.
PY 2013
PD MAY
SO Plos One
SN 1932-6203
PU Public Library Science
VL 8
IS 5
UT 000321200500009
DI 10.1371/journal.pone.0061550
ID 24650
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