TAILIEUCHUNG - ECOLOGY OF COLD SEEP SEDIMENTS: INTERACTIONS OF FAUNA WITH FLOW, CHEMISTRY AND MICROBES

Cold seeps occur in geologically active and passive continental margins, where pore waters enriched in methane are forced upward through the sediments by pressure gradients. The advective supply of methane leads to dense microbial communities with high metabolic rates. Anaerobic methane oxidation presumably coupled to sulphate reduction facilitates formation of carbonates and, in many places, generates extremely high concentrations of hydrogen sulphide in pore waters. Increased food supply, availability of hard substratum and high concentrations of methane and sulphide supplied to free-living and symbiotic bacteria provide the basis for the complex ecosystems found at these sites. This review examines the structures of animal communities in seep sediments and. | Oceanography and Marine Biology An Annual Review 2005 43 1-46 R. N. Gibson R. J. A. Atkinson and J. D. M. Gordon Editors Taylor Francis ECOLOGY OF COLD SEEP SEDIMENTS INTERACTIONS OF FAUNA WITH FLOW CHEMISTRY AND MICROBES LISA A. LEVIN Integrative Oceanography Division Scripps Institution of Oceanography La Jolla CA 92093-0218 USA E-mail llevin@ Abstract Cold seeps occur in geologically active and passive continental margins where pore waters enriched in methane are forced upward through the sediments by pressure gradients. The advective supply of methane leads to dense microbial communities with high metabolic rates. Anaerobic methane oxidation presumably coupled to sulphate reduction facilitates formation of carbonates and in many places generates extremely high concentrations of hydrogen sulphide in pore waters. Increased food supply availability of hard substratum and high concentrations of methane and sulphide supplied to free-living and symbiotic bacteria provide the basis for the complex ecosystems found at these sites. This review examines the structures of animal communities in seep sediments and how they are shaped by hydrologic geochemical and microbial processes. The full size range of biota is addressed but emphasis is on the mid-size sediment-dwelling infauna foraminiferans metazoan meiofauna and macrofauna which have received less attention than megafauna or microbes. Megafaunal biomass at seeps which far exceeds that of surrounding non-seep sediments is dominated by bivalves mytilids vesicomyids lucinids and thyasirids and vestimentiferan tube worms with pogonophorans cladorhizid sponges gastropods and shrimp sometimes abundant. In contrast seep sediments at shelf and upper slope depths have infaunal densities that often differ very little from those in ambient sediments. At greater depths seep infauna exhibit enhanced densities modified composition and reduced diversity relative to background sediments. Dorvilleid hesionid and ampharetid .

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