文档介绍：Deep-Sea Research I 95 (2015) 122–130
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Variability in gas and solute fluxes through deep-sea chemosynthetic
ecosystems inhabited by vesicomyid bivalves in the Gulf of Guinea
A. Khripounoff n, . Caprais, C. Decker, M. Essirard, J. Le Bruchec, P. Noel, K. Olu
IFREMER/Centre de Brest, Département REM/EEP/Laboratoire Environnement Profond, CS 10070, 29280 Plouzané, France
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Article history: We have studied two species of vesicomyid bivalves inhabiting different areas of sulfide-rich sediments in
Received 11 February 2014 association with methane seepage at two pockmarks located at about 650 m and 3150 m depth, respectively,
Received in revised form along the Gabon-Congo margin, and organic-rich sediments in the deepest zone (4950 m depth) of the
26 October 2014 Congo deep-sea fan. Benthic chambers Calmar were deployed on three study sites to assess gas and solute
Accepted 27 October 2014