Key role of bacteria in the short-term cycling of carbon at the abyssal seafloor in a low particulate organic carbon flux region of the eastern Pacific Ocean

Major role of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in dark ocean carbon fixation

(2017) Maria G. Pachiadaki et al.   SCIENCE

Response of Bacterial Communities to Different Detritus Compositions in Arctic Deep-Sea Sediments

(2017) Katy Hoffmann et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Major impacts of climate change on deep-sea benthic ecosystems

(2017) Andrew K. Sweetman et al.   Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene

Biological responses to disturbance from simulated deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining

(2017) Daniel O. B. Jones et al.   PLoS One

Novel benthic foraminifera are abundant and diverse in an area of the abyssal equatorial Pacific licensed for polymetallic nodule exploration

(2017) Aurélie Goineau et al.   Scientific Reports

Potential Mechanisms for Microbial Energy Acquisition in Oxic Deep-Sea Sediments

(2016) Benjamin J. Tully et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Jellyfish decomposition at the seafloor rapidly alters biogeochemical cycling and carbon flow through benthic food-webs

(2016) Andrew K. Sweetman et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Carbon cycling in the deep eastern North Pacific benthic food web: Investigating the effect of organic carbon input

(2016) Katherine M. Dunlop et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Deep-sea diversity patterns are shaped by energy availability

(2016) Skipton N. C. Woolley et al.   NATURE

Polymetallic nodules, sediments, and deep waters in the equatorial North Pacific exhibit highly diverse and distinct bacterial, archaeal, and microeukaryotic communities

(2016) Christine N. Shulse et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

Insights into the abundance and diversity of abyssal megafauna in a polymetallic-nodule region in the eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone

(2016) Diva J. Amon et al.   Scientific Reports

Towards a better quantitative assessment of the relevance of deep-sea viruses, Bacteria and Archaea in the functioning of the ocean seafloor

(2015) R Danovaro et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Basin-scale transport of hydrothermal dissolved metals across the South Pacific Ocean

(2015) Joseph A. Resing et al.   NATURE

Ubiquitous healthy diatoms in the deep sea confirm deep carbon injection by the biological pump

(2015) S. Agusti et al.   Nature Communications

Transplant experiments uncover Baltic Sea basin-specific responses in bacterioplankton community composition and metabolic activities

(2015) Markus V. Lindh et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Benthic ecosystem functioning beneath fish farms in different hydrodynamic environments

(2014) Andrew K. Sweetman et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Chemoautotrophic Carbon Fixation Rates and Active Bacterial Communities in Intertidal Marine Sediments

(2014) Henricus T. S. Boschker et al.   PLoS One

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea use the most energy-efficient aerobic pathway for CO2 fixation

(2014) M. Konneke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dark inorganic carbon fixation sustains the functioning of benthic deep-sea ecosystems

(2013) Massimiliano Molari et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Feeding Preferences of Abyssal Macrofauna Inferred from In Situ Pulse Chase Experiments

(2013) Rachel M. Jeffreys et al.   PLoS One

Deep ocean communities impacted by changing climate over 24 y in the abyssal northeast Pacific Ocean

(2013) K. L. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Temporal and depth-related differences in prokaryotic communities in abyssal sediments associated with particulate organic carbon flux

(2012) M.M. Moeseneder et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Assessing sub-seafloor microbial activity by combined stable isotope probing with deuterated water and 13C-bicarbonate

(2012) Gunter Wegener et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Carbon flows in the benthic food web of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain: The (un)importance of labile detritus in supporting microbial and faunal carbon demands

(2012) Dick van Oevelen et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Predictable and efficient carbon sequestration in the North Pacific Ocean supported by symbiotic nitrogen fixation

(2012) D. M. Karl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Deep-sea nematode assemblage has not recovered 26 years after experimental mining of polymetallic nodules (Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, Tropical Eastern Pacific)

(2011) Dmitry M. Miljutin et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Chemoautotrophy in the ocean

(2011) Jack J. Middelburg   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The energy–diversity relationship of complex bacterial communities in Arctic deep-sea sediments

(2011) Christina Bienhold et al.   ISME Journal

Transitions in bacterial communities along the 2000 km salinity gradient of the Baltic Sea

(2011) Daniel PR Herlemann et al.   ISME Journal

Spatial distribution of detrital resources determines the outcome of competition between bacteria and a facultative detritivorous worm

(2011) Paul van Nugteren et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Response of the benthic foraminiferal community to a simulated short-term phytodetritus pulse in the abyssal North Pacific

(2011) AJ Enge et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Bypassing the abyssal benthic food web: Macrourid diet in the eastern North Pacific inferred from stomach content and stable isotopes analyses

(2010) Jeffrey C. Drazen et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Nutritional importance of benthic bacteria for deep-sea nematodes from the Arctic ice margin: Results of an isotope tracer experiment

(2010) Katja Guilini et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Global Patterns and Predictions of Seafloor Biomass Using Random Forests

(2010) Chih-Lin Wei et al.   PLoS One

Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

(2010) J. G. Caporaso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Discovery of a black smoker vent field and vent fauna at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge

(2010) Rolf B. Pedersen et al.   Nature Communications

RETARDED RESPONSE BY MACROFAUNA-SIZE FORAMINIFERA TO PHYTODETRITUS IN A DEEP NORWEGIAN FJORD

(2009) A. K. Sweetman et al.   JOURNAL OF FORAMINIFERAL RESEARCH

Subseafloor sedimentary life in the South Pacific Gyre

(2009) Steven D'Hondt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate, carbon cycling, and deep-ocean ecosystems

(2009) K. L. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Inter-annual variability and potential for selectivity in the diets of deep-water Antarctic echinoderms

(2008) B.D. Wigham et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Response of an abyssal macrofaunal community to a phytodetrital pulse

(2008) AK Sweetman et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Response of benthic microbial communities to chitin enrichment: an in situ study in the deep Arctic Ocean

(2008) Corinna Kanzog et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Connections between climate, food limitation, and carbon cycling in abyssal sediment communities

(2008) H. A. Ruhl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Abyssal food limitation, ecosystem structure and climate change

(2008) C SMITH et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION