TY - JOUR
T1 - Hadal trenches
T2 - the ecology of the deepest places on Earth
AU - Jamieson, Alan J.
AU - Fujii, Toyonobu
AU - Mayor, Daniel J.
AU - Solan, Martin
AU - Priede, Imants G.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research, part of the HADEEP project (including T.F.), was supported jointly by the Natural Environmental Research Council (UK) and the Nippon Foundation (Japan) with additional support from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. D.J.M. is currently funded by the Leverhulme Trust. We thank Dr. Henry Ruhl and Prof. Paul Tyler and one other anonymous reviewer for their comments.
PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - Hadal trenches account for the deepest 45% of the oceanic depth range and host active and diverse biological communities. Advances in our understanding of hadal community structure and function have, until recently, relied on technologies that were unable to document ecological information. Renewed international interest in exploring the deepest marine environment on Earth provides impetus to re-evaluate hadal community ecology. We review the abiotic and biotic characteristics of trenches and offer a contemporary perspective of trench ecology. The application of existing, rather than the generation of novel, ecological theory offers the best prospect of understanding deep ocean ecology.
AB - Hadal trenches account for the deepest 45% of the oceanic depth range and host active and diverse biological communities. Advances in our understanding of hadal community structure and function have, until recently, relied on technologies that were unable to document ecological information. Renewed international interest in exploring the deepest marine environment on Earth provides impetus to re-evaluate hadal community ecology. We review the abiotic and biotic characteristics of trenches and offer a contemporary perspective of trench ecology. The application of existing, rather than the generation of novel, ecological theory offers the best prospect of understanding deep ocean ecology.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tree.2009.09.009
DO - 10.1016/j.tree.2009.09.009
M3 - Review article
C2 - 19846236
AN - SCOPUS:76249108839
VL - 25
SP - 190
EP - 197
JO - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
JF - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
SN - 0169-5347
IS - 3
ER -
