Communications Earth & Environment (Mar 2022)

Active hydrothermal vents in the Woodlark Basin may act as dispersing centres for hydrothermal fauna

  • Cédric Boulart,
  • Olivier Rouxel,
  • Carla Scalabrin,
  • Pierre Le Meur,
  • Ewan Pelleter,
  • Camille Poitrimol,
  • Eric Thiébaut,
  • Marjolaine Matabos,
  • Jade Castel,
  • Adrien Tran Lu Y,
  • Loic N. Michel,
  • Cécile Cathalot,
  • Sandrine Chéron,
  • Audrey Boissier,
  • Yoan Germain,
  • Vivien Guyader,
  • Sophie Arnaud-Haond,
  • François Bonhomme,
  • Thomas Broquet,
  • Valérie Cueff-Gauchard,
  • Victor Le Layec,
  • Stéphane L’Haridon,
  • Jean Mary,
  • Anne-Sophie Le Port,
  • Aurélie Tasiemski,
  • Darren C. Kuama,
  • Stéphane Hourdez,
  • Didier Jollivet

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00387-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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La Scala Vent Field, near the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean, comprises diffuse vents and vigorous black smokers and hosts large beds of stalked barnacles and bacterial mats at vent peripheries, according to ship-borne multi-beam echo sounding and remotely operated vehicle surveys.