Spotlight on Technology: In Situ Technologies for Studying Deep-Sea Hotspot Ecosystems
Cold seeps, hydrothermal vents, deep water coral reefs, and submarine canyon systems are hotspot habitats characterized by intermediate to high fluid advection. They are shaped by a complex interplay of physical, biological, geochemical, and geological processes. Biogeochemical and physicochemical g...
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| description | Cold seeps, hydrothermal vents, deep water coral reefs, and submarine canyon systems are hotspot habitats characterized by intermediate to high fluid advection. They are shaped by a complex interplay of physical, biological, geochemical, and geological processes. Biogeochemical and physicochemical gradients in these ecosystems are frequently extremely steep and temporally and spatially variable. Zones of elevated microbial activity, such as the methane-sulfate interface at cold-seep sites, usually encompass no more than a few millimeters. Recovery of samples for further shipboard analysis from such hotspot zones generally causes severe artifacts in the biogeochemical gradients. Hence, to quantify chemical gradients, microbial processes, and transport rates in deep-sea hotspot ecosystems, we have developed and operated a variety of specialized in situ instruments (Figure 1). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-052e4a616e0e4a378f9fe3926946bb752022-12-21T20:39:32ZengThe Oceanography SocietyOceanography1042-82752009-03-01221177177Spotlight on Technology: In Situ Technologies for Studying Deep-Sea Hotspot EcosystemsAntje BoetiusFrank WenzhöferCold seeps, hydrothermal vents, deep water coral reefs, and submarine canyon systems are hotspot habitats characterized by intermediate to high fluid advection. They are shaped by a complex interplay of physical, biological, geochemical, and geological processes. Biogeochemical and physicochemical gradients in these ecosystems are frequently extremely steep and temporally and spatially variable. Zones of elevated microbial activity, such as the methane-sulfate interface at cold-seep sites, usually encompass no more than a few millimeters. Recovery of samples for further shipboard analysis from such hotspot zones generally causes severe artifacts in the biogeochemical gradients. Hence, to quantify chemical gradients, microbial processes, and transport rates in deep-sea hotspot ecosystems, we have developed and operated a variety of specialized in situ instruments (Figure 1).http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/22-1_boetius.pdfHERMEShotspot habitatsfluid advectionwater samplingdeep-sea ecosystemsocean technology |
| spellingShingle | Antje Boetius Frank Wenzhöfer Spotlight on Technology: In Situ Technologies for Studying Deep-Sea Hotspot Ecosystems Oceanography HERMES hotspot habitats fluid advection water sampling deep-sea ecosystems ocean technology |
| title | Spotlight on Technology: In Situ Technologies for Studying Deep-Sea Hotspot Ecosystems |
| title_full | Spotlight on Technology: In Situ Technologies for Studying Deep-Sea Hotspot Ecosystems |
| title_fullStr | Spotlight on Technology: In Situ Technologies for Studying Deep-Sea Hotspot Ecosystems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spotlight on Technology: In Situ Technologies for Studying Deep-Sea Hotspot Ecosystems |
| title_short | Spotlight on Technology: In Situ Technologies for Studying Deep-Sea Hotspot Ecosystems |
| title_sort | spotlight on technology in situ technologies for studying deep sea hotspot ecosystems |
| topic | HERMES hotspot habitats fluid advection water sampling deep-sea ecosystems ocean technology |
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