Community response of deep-sea soft-sediment metazoan meiofauna to the Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill
Autor: | Colin Morrison, Paul Bennetts, Jeffrey G. Baguley, Hyun Woo Bang, Gregory Saiyo, Anthony Kamikawa, Morgan Ricci, Erin Parsons, Cynthia Cooksey, Meredyth Herdener, Jeffrey L. Hyland, Paul A. Montagna |
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Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Zdroj: | Marine Ecology Progress Series. 528:127-140 |
ISSN: | 1616-1599 0171-8630 |
Popis: | The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) blowout and oil spill of 2010 released an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Spill-related contaminants that sank to the seafloor pose risks to benthic fauna living within bottom substrates that are unable to avoid expo- sure due to their relatively sedentary existence. Metazoan meiofauna are abundant and diverse members of deep-sea soft-sediment communities and play important roles in ecosystem function. We investigated the deep-sea metazoan meiofauna community response to the DWH blowout and oil spill at 66 stations ranging from |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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