Book contents
- Life in Extreme Environments
- Ecological Reviews
- Life in Extreme Environments
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Extreme environments: responses and adaptation to change
- Chapter One Physiological traits of the Greenland shark Somniosus microcephalus obtained during the TUNU-Expeditions to Northeast Greenland
- Chapter Two Metazoan adaptation to deep-sea hydrothermal vents
- Chapter Three Extremophiles populating high-level natural radiation areas (HLNRAs) in Iran
- Part II Biodiversity, bioenergetic processes, and biotic and abiotic interactions
- Part III Life in extreme environments and the responses to change: the example of polar environments
- Part IV Life and habitability
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Chapter Two - Metazoan adaptation to deep-sea hydrothermal vents
from Part I - Extreme environments: responses and adaptation to change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2020
- Life in Extreme Environments
- Ecological Reviews
- Life in Extreme Environments
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Extreme environments: responses and adaptation to change
- Chapter One Physiological traits of the Greenland shark Somniosus microcephalus obtained during the TUNU-Expeditions to Northeast Greenland
- Chapter Two Metazoan adaptation to deep-sea hydrothermal vents
- Chapter Three Extremophiles populating high-level natural radiation areas (HLNRAs) in Iran
- Part II Biodiversity, bioenergetic processes, and biotic and abiotic interactions
- Part III Life in extreme environments and the responses to change: the example of polar environments
- Part IV Life and habitability
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Summary
Fauna inhabiting the deep-sea usually obtains its nutrition from sinking organic matter formed by photosynthesis in the photic zone. This photosynthetic organic matter is degraded during its fall and, as a result, these great depths are typically host to a high biodiversity but low biomass. The discovery of deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the late 1970s
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- Life in Extreme EnvironmentsInsights in Biological Capability, pp. 42 - 67Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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