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3. Meiobenthos of the Sub-equatorial North-Eastern Pacific Abyssal Seafloor: A Synopsis

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The metazoan meiobenthos of the sub-equatorial North-Eastern Pacific abyss, CCFZ included, groups a fairly high number of higher taxa (including nematodes, harpacticoid copepods, ostracods, kinorhynchs, tardigrades, gastrotrichs, halacaroid mites, loriciferans, meiobenthos-sized polychaetes), the free-living nematodes and harpacticoid copepods being dominant. Both groups are very diverse in terms of taxon (genus, species) richness, the genus-level lists from the studies conducted so far containing 10–246 and 34–62 genera of nematodes and harpacticoids, respectively. Most genera (e.g. Acantholaimus among the nematodes and Pontostratoites among the harpacticoids) seem to occur throughout CCFZ, although the dominant genera change depending on the location (e.g. the Terschellingia nematodes were found to dominate in the eastern part of CCFZ and Acantholaimus in most other locations sampled). Most of the individuals found in samples represent as yet unknown, undescribed species. Meiobenthic abundances were found to vary over a range on the order of 10¹–10² ind./10 cm², i.e. an order or two lower than the densities recorded in shallower and shelf waters. The variability in the abundance is thought to results from sediment- and habitat type-dependence (nodule-bearing versus nodule-free bottom, the nodules supporting characteristic faunas of their own) as well as from small-scale patchiness induced by natural factors (near-bottom water dynamics, activity of megafauna, presence of biogenic structures such as large protozoans the Xenophyophorea and the Komokiacea). The CCFZ meiobenthos was found to respond to episodic inputs of organic material in the form of phytodetritus sedimentation, some nematode (desmoscolecids) and harpacticoid (argestids) taxa being particularly responsive and increasing their abundance.

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Titel: Meiobenthos of the Sub-equatorial North-Eastern Pacific Abyssal Seafloor: A Synopsis
verfasst von: Teresa Radziejewska
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Buch: Meiobenthos in the Sub-equatorial Pacific Abyss
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-41457-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-41458-9

Copyright-Jahr: 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41458-9_3