11.214 - Oceanic ridge benthic communities

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Benthic communities occupying raised features of the deep sea-floor; they include assemblages colonizing active or nonactive constructive midocean ridges, as well as those developed on asismic ridges, but with the exception of hydrothermal communities.

Bibliographie

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Pautot, 1983: 80-81, 84-85; Barnes and Hughes, 1988; Clark, 1990; Munda, 1991.