Dataset: seep colonization
Deployment: AT15-59

Species counts (per 200cm2) on wood, rock and biotic colonization substrates deployed for 10 months at Mound 12 on the Costa Rica margin (AT 15-59)
Principal Investigator: 
Lisa A. Levin (University of California-San Diego, UCSD-SIO)
Co-Principal Investigator: 
Gregory Rouse (University of California-San Diego, UCSD-SIO)
Student: 
Dr Benjamin Grupe (University of California-San Diego, UCSD-SIO)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Project: 
Current State: 
Final no updates expected
Version Date: 
2012-11-07
Description

Related References:
Case, D. H., Pasulka, A.L., Marlow J.J., Grupe, B. , Levin, L.A., Orphan, V.J. Methane seep carbonates host distinct, diverse, and dynamic microbial assemblages.  Environmental Microbiology and Environmental Microbiology Reports. e01348-15 (2015).

Levin, L.A., Mendoza, G. Grupe B., Gonzalez, J. Jellison, B. Rouse, G. Thurber A. Waren A. Biodiversity on the rocks: macrofauna inhabiting authigenic carbonate at Costa Rica methane seeps. PLOS ONE 10(7): e0131080. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131080  (2015) 

Levin, L.A., G.F. Mendoza and B.M. Grupe, Methane seepage effects on biodiversity and biological traits of macrofauna inhabiting authigenic carbonates. Deep-sea Res. II (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.05.021 (2016)

Marlow, J.J., Steele, J.A., Ziebis, W., Thurger A.R., Levin, L.A. and Orphan, V.J. Carbonate hosted methanotrophy: an unrecognized methane sink in the deep sea. Nature Communications 5:  5094 (2014) DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6094

Marlow, J.J., Steele, J.A., Case, D.H. Connon, S.A., Levin, L.A. and V.J. Orphan. Microbial abundance and diversity patterns associated with sediments and carbonates from the methane seep environments of Hydrate Ridge, OR. Frontiers in Marine Science, Aquatic Microbiology. Vol. 1 Article 44 doi: 10.3389/fmars.2014.00044  (2014) 
 

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