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PLoS ONE: Biogeography of Deep-Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems - The ChEss Collection

This Collection presents some of the recent advances in biogeography and taxonomy within deep-sea chemosynthetic environments: patterns, processes, and synthesis resulting from the Census of Marine Life ChEss Program (2002-2010). Over 110 ChEss researchers have studied various elements of the biogeography of species from deep-water hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, and whale falls, to oxygen minimum zones. Through their concerted efforts our knowledge of these extraordinary habitats and their faunal composition has been greatly expanded. An overall synthesis paper by the ChEss Office summarises the ChEss program and the collection contributions.

Links within each paper are made to additional information sources, including ChEssBase - the most comprehensive database of species described from deep-sea chemosynthetic habitats and the Encyclopedia of Life which has detailed descriptions of each of the species mentioned in the collection.

Articles are presented in order of publication date and new articles will be added to the ChEss collection as they are published, up to and beyond the end of the first Census of Marine Life in December 2010.

Image Credit: Amy Scott-Murray (amy@blueprintanimation.com)

Collection Citation: PLoS ONE: Biogeography of Deep-Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems - The ChEss Collection (2010) PLoS Collections: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/issue.pcol.v02.i06

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Comparative Composition, Diversity and Trophic Ecology of Sediment Macrofauna at Vents, Seeps and Organic Falls

Angelo F. Bernardino, Lisa A. Levin, Andrew R. Thurber, Craig R. Smith

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Published 04 Apr 2012 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0033515

Deep-Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystem Research during the Census of Marine Life Decade and Beyond: A Proposed Deep-Ocean Road Map

Christopher R. German, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, Maria C. Baker, Paul A. Tyler, and the ChEss Scientific Steering Committee

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Published 04 Aug 2011 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0023259

Man and the Last Great Wilderness: Human Impact on the Deep Sea

Eva Ramirez-Llodra, Paul A. Tyler, Maria C. Baker, Odd Aksel Bergstad, Malcolm R. Clark, Elva Escobar, Lisa A. Levin, Lenaick Menot, Ashley A. Rowden, Craig R. Smith, Cindy L. Van Dover

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Published 01 Aug 2011 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0022588

New Perspectives on the Ecology and Evolution of Siboglinid Tubeworms

Ana Hilário, María Capa, Thomas G. Dahlgren, Kenneth M. Halanych, Crispin T. S. Little, Daniel J. Thornhill, Caroline Verna, Adrian G. Glover

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Published 14 Feb 2011 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0016309

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Phylogeny and Diversification Patterns among Vesicomyid Bivalves

Carole Decker, Karine Olu, Regina L. Cunha, Sophie Arnaud-Haond

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Published 12 Apr 2012 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0033359

The Discovery of New Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Communities in the Southern Ocean and Implications for Biogeography

Alex D. Rogers, Paul A. Tyler, Douglas P. Connelly, Jon T. Copley, Rachael James, Robert D. Larter, Katrin Linse, Rachel A. Mills, Alfredo Naveira Garabato, Richard D. Pancost, David A. Pearce, Nicholas V. C. Polunin, Christopher R. German, Timothy Shank, Philipp H. Boersch-Supan, Belinda J. Alker, Alfred Aquilina, Sarah A. Bennett, Andrew Clarke, Robert J. J. Dinley, Alastair G. C. Graham, Darryl R. H. Green, Jeffrey A. Hawkes, Laura Hepburn, Ana Hilario, Veerle A. I. Huvenne, Leigh Marsh, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, William D. K. Reid, Christopher N. Roterman, Christopher J. Sweeting, Sven Thatje, Katrin Zwirglmaier

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Published 03 Jan 2012 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001234

Dancing for Food in the Deep Sea: Bacterial Farming by a New Species of Yeti Crab

Andrew R. Thurber, William J. Jones, Kareen Schnabel

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Published 30 Nov 2011 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0026243

Characterisation of the Nematode Community of a Low-Activity Cold Seep in the Recently Ice-Shelf Free Larsen B Area, Eastern Antarctic Peninsula

Freija Hauquier, Jeroen Ingels, Julian Gutt, Maarten Raes, Ann Vanreusel

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Published 20 Jul 2011 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0022240

Advances in Taxonomy, Ecology, and Biogeography of Dirivultidae (Copepoda) Associated with Chemosynthetic Environments in the Deep Sea

Sabine Gollner, Viatcheslav N. Ivanenko, Pedro Martínez Arbizu, Monika Bright

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Published 31 Aug 2010 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0009801

Extracellular and Mixotrophic Symbiosis in the Whale-Fall Mussel Adipicola pacifica: A Trend in Evolution from Extra- to Intracellular Symbiosis

Yoshihiro Fujiwara, Masaru Kawato, Chikayo Noda, Gin Kinoshita, Toshiro Yamanaka, Yuko Fujita, Katsuyuki Uematsu, Jun-Ichi Miyazaki

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Published 27 Jul 2010 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0011808

Do Larval Supply and Recruitment Vary among Chemosynthetic Environments of the Deep Sea?

Anna Metaxas, Noreen E. Kelly

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Published 19 Jul 2010 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0011646

Phylogenetic Relationships among Deep-Sea and Chemosynthetic Sea Anemones: Actinoscyphiidae and Actinostolidae (Actiniaria: Mesomyaria)

Estefanía Rodríguez, Marymegan Daly

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Published 04 Jun 2010 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0010958

Evolutionary Process of Deep-Sea Bathymodiolus Mussels

Jun-Ichi Miyazaki, Leonardo de Oliveira Martins, Yuko Fujita, Hiroto Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Fujiwara

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Published 27 Apr 2010 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0010363

Vesicomyidae (Bivalvia): Current Taxonomy and Distribution

Elena M. Krylova, Heiko Sahling

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Published 01 Apr 2010 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0009957