11.216 - Cold-seep benthic communities

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Highly distinctive benthic communities of large bivalves, sponges and bryozoans, inhabiting the vicinity of oceanic methane-laden seeps, mostly localized in subduction trenches.

Bibliography

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)

Barnes and Hughes, 1988; Laubier, 1993; Lutz and Kristof, 2000.