Biogeography and ecological setting of Indian Ocean hydrothermal vents

Van Dover, C.L.; Humphris, S.E.; Fornari, D.; Cavanaugh, C.M.; Collier, R.; Goffredi, S.K.; Hashimoto, J.; Lilley, M.D.; Reysenbach, A.L.; Shank, T.M.; Von Damm, K.L.; Banta, A.; Gallant, R.M.; Gotz, D.; Green, D.; Hall, J.; Harmer, T.L.; Hurtado, L.A.; Johnson, P.; McKiness, Z.P.; Meredith, C.; Olson, E.; Pan, I.L.; Turnipseed, M.; Won, Y.; Young, C.R.; Vrijenhoek, R.C. 2001 Biogeography and ecological setting of Indian Ocean hydrothermal vents. Science, 294 (5543). 818-823. 10.1126/science.1064574

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Abstract/Summary

Within the endemic invertebrate faunas of hydrothermal vents, five biogeographic provinces are recognized. Invertebrates at two Indian Ocean vent fields (Kairei and Edmond) belong to a sixth province, despite ecological settings and invertebrate-bacterial symbioses similar to those of both western Pacific and Atlantic vents. Most organisms found at these Indian Ocean vent fields have evolutionary affinities with western Pacific vent faunas, but a shrimp that ecologically dominates Indian Ocean vents closely resembles its Mid-Atlantic counterpart. These findings contribute to a global assessment of the biogeography of chemosynthetic faunas and indicate that the Indian Ocean vent community follows asymmetric assembly rules biased toward Pacific evolutionary alliances.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1126/science.1064574
Additional Keywords:	hydrothermal wents, ecology, biogeography, indian ocean, fauna, chemosysnthesis, biology
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Date made live:	08 Jul 2004 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/107851

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