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
- Part II Biodiversity, bioenergetic processes, and biotic and abiotic interactions
- Chapter Four Metazoan life in anoxic marine sediments
- Chapter Five How to survive winter?
- Chapter Six Vertebrate viruses in polar ecosystems
- 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 Four - Metazoan life in anoxic marine sediments
from Part II - Biodiversity, bioenergetic processes, and biotic and abiotic interactions
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
- Part II Biodiversity, bioenergetic processes, and biotic and abiotic interactions
- Chapter Four Metazoan life in anoxic marine sediments
- Chapter Five How to survive winter?
- Chapter Six Vertebrate viruses in polar ecosystems
- 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
Benthic deep-sea ecosystems (beneath 200 m depth) represent the largest biome on our planet, covering >65% of the Earth’s surface and hosting >95% of the global biosphere (Danovaro et al., 2014). Deep-sea ecosystems also contain the largest hypoxic and anoxic regions of the Biosphere such as the oxygen minimum zones (OMZ) and the deep hypersaline anoxic basins (DHAB).
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- Life in Extreme EnvironmentsInsights in Biological Capability, pp. 89 - 100Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020