Feast and famine — microbial life in the deep-sea bed

2007/09/10 by Bo Barker Jørgensen, Antje Boetius, Antje Boëtius · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Biology #Biosphere #Chemosynthesis #Deep sea #Earth science #Ecology #Environmental science #Extremophile #Geology #Habitat #Hydrothermal circulation #Hydrothermal vent #Marine Biology and Ecology Research #Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena #Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology #Microorganism #Oceanography #Paleontology #Psychrophile #Seabed #Seafloor spreading

paper · doi:10.1038/nrmicro1745

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• Fungal Diversity in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Ecosystems
• Abyssal plain [wikipedia]