Gradients in activity and biomass of the small benthic biota along a channel system in the deep Western Greenland Sea

Anonymous, 2002. Benthic processes and dynamics at the NW Iberian Margin: results of the OMEX II program. Progress in Oceanography 52(2–4), 121–476. Barnett, 1984, A multiple corer for taking virtually undisturbed samples from shelf, bathyal and abyssal sediments, Oceanologica Acta, 7, 399 Biscaye, 1994, Fluxes of particulate matter on the slope of the southern Middle Atlantic Bight: SEEP-II, Deep-Sea Research II, 41, 459, 10.1016/0967-0645(94)90032-9 Boetius, 1998, Benthic oxygen uptake, hydrolytic potentials and microbial biomass at the Arctic continental slope, Deep-Sea Research I, 45, 239, 10.1016/S0967-0637(97)00052-6 Børsheim, 1990, Enumeration and biomass estimation of planktonic bacteria and viruses by transmission electron microscopy, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 56, 352, 10.1128/AEM.56.2.352-356.1990 Carter, 1988, The nature and evolution of deep-sea channel systems, Basin Research, 1, 41, 10.1111/j.1365-2117.1988.tb00004.x Cartes, 1994, Deep-water decapod crustacean communities in the northwestern Mediterranean: Influence of submarine canyons and season, Marine Biology, 120, 221, 10.1007/BF00349682 Decho, 1990, Microbial exopolymer secretions in the ocean environments: their role(s) in food webs and marine processes, Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, 28, 73 Duineveld, 2001, Activity and composition of the benthic fauna in the Whittard Canyon and the adjacent continental slope, Oceanologica Acta, 24, 69, 10.1016/S0399-1784(00)01129-4 Findlay, 1989, Efficiency of phospholipid analysis in determining microbial biomass in sediments, Applied Environmental Microbiology, 55, 2888, 10.1128/AEM.55.11.2888-2893.1989 Frahm, A., 2003. Qualitative Untersuchungen einer ausgeprägten Tiefseerinnenstruktur am ostgrönländischen Kontinentalhang. Diploma Thesis, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg, Germany, 80pp. (in German). Gage, 1995, Deep-sea macrobenthic communities at contrasting sites off Portugal, preliminary results: I. Introduction and diversity comparisons, Internationale Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie, 80, 235, 10.1002/iroh.19950800211 Gage, J.D., 2004. Food inputs, utilization, carbon flow and energetics. In: Tyler, P.A. (Ed.), Ecosystems of the Deep Oceans. Ecosystems of the World 28, 313–380. Gerino, 1999, Evidence of bioturbation in the Cap-Ferret Canyon in the deep northeastern Atlantic, Deep-Sea Research II, 46, 2289, 10.1016/S0967-0645(99)00063-6 Gooday, 1996, An apparent lack of response by metazoan meiofauna to phytodetritus deposition in the bathyal North-Eastern Atlantic, Journal of Marine Biological Association UK, 76, 297, 10.1017/S0025315400030563 Greiser, 1988, Biotic factors, 79 Griggs, 1969, Deep-sea sedimentation and sediment-fauna interactions in Cascadia Channel and on Cascadia Abyssal Plain, Deep-Sea Research, 16, 157 Grossmann, 1991, Impact of Arenicola marina on bacteria in intertidal sediments, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 77, 85, 10.3354/meps077085 Harrold, 1998, Organic enrichment of submarine-canyon and continental-shelf benthic communities by macroalgal drift imported from nearshore kelp forests, Limnology and Oceanography, 43, 669, 10.4319/lo.1998.43.4.0669 Hollender, F.-J., 1996. Untersuchung des ostgrönländischen Kontinentalrandes mit dem Weitwinkel-Seitensicht-Sonar GLORIA. Berichte aus dem Sonderforschungsbereich 313, Universität Kiel, Germany, pp. 124 (in German). Holm-Hansen, 1965, Fluorometric determination of chlorophyll, Journal du Conseil Permanent International pour l’Exploration de la Mer, 30, 3, 10.1093/icesjms/30.1.3 Houston, 1984, Abundance and biomass of macrobenthos in the vicinity of Carson Submarine Canyon, northwest Atlantic Ocean, Marine Biology, 82, 301, 10.1007/BF00392410 Hurlbert, 1984, Pseudoreplication and the design of ecological field experiments, Ecological Monographs, 54, 187, 10.2307/1942661 Juterzenka, K. v., Soltwedel, T., Arntz, W.E. (submitted). Benthic bacterial community structure along a deep-sea channel system determined by Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis, Deep-Sea Research I. Köster, 1991, Hydrolytic activity associated with organisms and biogenic structures in deep-sea sediments, 298 Krebs, 1998 Kruskal, 1964, Multidimensional scaling by optimising goodness of fit to a non-metric hypothesis, Psychometrica, 29, 1, 10.1007/BF02289565 Langworthy, 2002, Lipid analysis of the response of a sedimentary microbial community to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Microbial Ecology, 43, 189, 10.1007/s00248-001-1040-6 Legendre, 1998 Lochte, 1988, Bacteria and cyanobacteria associated with phytodetritus in the deep sea, Nature, 333, 67, 10.1038/333067a0 Mart, 1989, Sediment distribution in Akhziv Canyon off Northern Israel, Geo-Marine Letters, 9, 77, 10.1007/BF02430427 Mathooko, 2002, Characterization of sediment biofilms in stressed sites in a lotic ecosystem in the Rift Valley Province, Kenya, Hydrobiologia, 489, 1, 10.1023/A:1023254707844 Maurer, 1994, Comparison of community structure of soft-bottom macrobenthos of the Newport Submarine Canyon, California and the adjoining shelf, Internationale Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie, 79, 591, 10.1002/iroh.19940790409 Maurer, 1995, Community structure of soft-bottom macrobenthos of the Newport Submarine Canyon, California, PSZNI: Marine Ecology, 16, 57, 10.1111/j.1439-0485.1995.tb00394.x Meier-Reil, 1983, Benthic response to sedimentation events during autumn to spring at a shallow water station in the western Kiel Bight, Marine Biology, 77, 247, 10.1007/BF00395813 Mienert, 1993, Polar continental margins: Studies off East Greenland, EOS, 74, 225, 10.1029/93EO00294 Mienert, 1995, Gloria survey of the East Greenland margin: 70–80N, 172 Monaco, 1990, Seasonality and composition of particulate fluxes during ECOMARGE-I, western Gulf of Lions, Continental Shelf Research, 10, 959, 10.1016/0278-4343(90)90070-3 Monaco, 1999, The ECOFER (ECOsysteme du canyon du Cap FERret experiment in the Bay of Biscay, Deep-Sea Research II, 46, 1967 Pfannkuche, 1988, Sample processing, 134 Pfannkuche, 1998, Small benthic size classes along the NW European continental margin: spatial and temporal variability in activity and biomass, Progress in Oceanography, 42, 189, 10.1016/S0079-6611(98)00034-2 Pfannkuche, 1999, Responses of deep-sea benthos to sedimentation patterns in the North-East Atlantic in 1992, Deep-Sea Research I, 46, 573, 10.1016/S0967-0637(98)00081-8 Pfannkuche, 2000, Coupling between phytodetritus deposition and the small-sized benthic biota in the deep Arabian Sea: analyses of biogenic sediment compounds, Deep-Sea Research II, 47, 2805, 10.1016/S0967-0645(00)00050-3 Poremba, 1994, Simulated degradation of phytodetritus in deep-sea sediments of the NE Atlantic (47°N, 19°W), Marine Ecology Progress Series, 105, 291, 10.3354/meps105291 Puig, 2000, Deep slope currents and suspended particle fluxes in and around the Foix submarine canyon (NW Mediterranean), Deep-Sea Research I, 47, 343, 10.1016/S0967-0637(99)00062-X Puig, 2003, Shelf-to canyon sediment-transport processes on the Eel continental margin (northern California), Marine Geology, 193, 129, 10.1016/S0025-3227(02)00641-2 Quéric, N., Hasemann, C., Juterzenka, K. v., Soltwedel, T., in preparation. Benthic bacterial community structure along an arctic deep-sea channel system by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Ramseier, 1999, Sea-ice impact on long-term particle flux in the Greenland Sea's Is Odden-Nordbukta region, 1985–1996, Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 5329, 10.1029/1998JC900048 Ramseier, 2001, An overview of sea-ice conditions in the Greenland Sea and the relationship of oceanic sedimentation to the ice regime, 19 Rowe, 1982, The deep-sea macrobenthos on the continental margin of the northwest Atlantic Ocean, Deep-Sea Research, 29, 257, 10.1016/0198-0149(82)90113-3 Sakshaug, 1989, Live at the edge, Ambio, 18, 60 Sanford, 1990, Modern sedimentary processes in the Wilmington Canyon area, US East Coast, Marine Geology, 92, 205, 10.1016/0025-3227(90)90004-4 Schewe, 2001, Small-sized benthic organisms of the Alpha Ridge, central Arctic Ocean, International Review of Hydrobiology, 86, 317, 10.1002/1522-2632(200106)86:3<317::AID-IROH317>3.0.CO;2-V Schmidt, 2001, Enhanced short-term sediment deposition within the Nazare Canyon, North-East Atlantic, Marine Geology, 173, 55, 10.1016/S0025-3227(00)00163-8 Schröder, A., 2003. Community dynamics and development of soft bottom macrozoobenthos in the German Bight (North Sea), 1969–2000. Ph.D. Thesis, University Bremen, 190pp. Sedmark, 1977, A rapid, sensitive and versatile assay for protein using Coomassie Brilliant Blue G 250, Analytical Biochemistry, 79, 544, 10.1016/0003-2697(77)90428-6 Sommer, 2002, Ecological implications of surficial marine gas hydrates for associated small-sized benthic biota at the Hydrate Ridge (Cascadia Convergent Margin, NE Pacific), Marine Ecology Progress Series, 243, 25, 10.3354/meps243025 Soltwedel, 2000, Benthic activity and biomass on the Yermak Plateau and in adjacent deep-sea regions northwest of Svalbard, Deep-Sea Research I, 47, 1761, 10.1016/S0967-0637(00)00006-6 Thiel, 1978, Benthos in upwelling regions, 124 Vetter, 1998, Macrofaunal communities within and adjacent to a detritus-rich submarine canyon system, Deep-Sea Research II, 45, 25, 10.1016/S0967-0645(97)00048-9 Vetter, 1999, Organic enrichment by macrophyte detritus, and abundance patterns of megafaunal populations in submarine canyons, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 186, 137, 10.3354/meps186137 Vorren, 1998, The Norwegian-Greenland Sea continental margins: Morphology and late quaternary sedimentary processes and environment, Quaternary Science Reviews, 17, 273, 10.1016/S0277-3791(97)00072-3 Walsh, 1988, The 1983–1984 Shelf edge exchange processes (SEEP)-I experiment: hypothesis and highlights, Continental Shelf Research, 8, 435, 10.1016/0278-4343(88)90063-5 Watling, 2001, Impact of a scallop drag on the sediment chemistry, microbiota, and faunal assemblages of a shallow subtidal marine benthic community, Journal of Sea Research, 46, 309, 10.1016/S1385-1101(01)00083-1 Wollast, 2001, Ocean margin exchange in the Northern Gulf of Biscay: OMEX I, Deep-Sea Research II, 48, 2971, 10.1016/S0967-0645(01)00029-7 Woodgate, 1999, Benthic storms in the Greenland Sea, Deep-Sea Research I, 46, 2109, 10.1016/S0967-0637(99)00037-0 Yentsch, 1963, A method for the determination of phytoplankton chlorophyll and phaeophytin by fluorescence, Deep-Sea Research, 10, 221