The ecology of deep-sea hydrothermal vents /
Teeming with weird and wonderful life--giant clams and mussels, tubeworms, "eyeless" shrimp, and bacteria that survive on sulfur--deep-sea hot-water springs are found along rifts where sea-floor spreading occurs. The theory of plate tectonics predicted the existence of these hydrothermal v...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2000.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The non-vent deep sea
- Geological setting of hydrothermal vents
- Chemical and physical properties of vent fluids
- Hydrothermal plumes
- Microbial ecology
- Symbiosis
- Physiological ecology
- Tropic ecology
- Reproductive ecology
- Community dynamics
- Evolution and biogeography
- Cognate communities
- Hydrothermal systems and the origin of life.