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Recolonisation of Artificial Sediments in the Deep Bay of Biscay By Tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida), With a Description of a New Species of Pseudotanais

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

G.J. Bird  and
D.M. Holdich
G.J. Bird
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD
D.M. Holdich
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD
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One of the more recent aims of deep-sea biological investigations has been to assess the rates and processes involved in the recolonisation of deep-sea sediments by the in situ fauna (Grassle, 1977; Desbruyères etal., 1980, 1985; Levin & Smith, 1984). The spur to such initiatives has been the prospect of deep-sea mineral exploitation and the dumping of radioactive and other chemical wastes (Desbruyères etal., 1 985), in addition to the testing of hypotheses about deep-sea community regulation (Levin & Smith, 1984; Smith, 1986). These experiments have shown that perturbated or defaunated sediments incubated for periods of several months are readily recolonised by deep-sea animals, although the process is much slower than in comparable shallow-water situations (e.g. Levin, 1984; Zajac & Whitlach, 1982a, b). Furthermore, the resulting community of colonists may be quantitatively and qualitatively different from the ‘background’ fauna (Grassle, 1977; Levin & Smith, 1984). Similar experiments have examined the effect of large ‘food-parcels’ on the in situ sediments and fauna (Smith, 1986), and a review of the responses of benthic faunas to disturbed sediments has been published by Thistle (1981).

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 69 , Issue 2 , May 1989 , pp. 307 - 317
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1989

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