OB006
Biological hotspots in the deep sea: natural variability and adaptation to changing oceans

Session ID#: 85248

Session Description:
The deep-sea is often considered as the last wilderness on earth and provides habitat to many vulnerable and often unexplored ecosystems. These ecosystems support high species biodiversity and biomass, and provide goods and services that are vital for the health and wellbeing of our planet. Ecosystems such as cold-water coral and sponge reefs not only support a great diversity of life, but are also seriously affected by human activities and climate change. Biogeochemical dynamics, distribution, interconnections and adaptation of these ecosystems to anthropogenic change are key values to understand ecosystem functioning through time and make predictions for the future. This session will focus on benthic biological hotspot ecosystems in the deep sea, including seamounts, submarine canyons and continental slopes. Presenters are encouraged from different fields studying biogeographic patterns, biodiversity (macro to microscale), biogeochemistry, oceanography, paleoclimatological characteristics, and stressors of these fragile ecosystems.
Index Terms:

1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4804 Benthic processes, benthos [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
4817 Food webs, structure, and dynamics [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]

Primary Chair:  Furu Mienis, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands
Co-chairs:  Hans Tore Rapp, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Andrew J Davies, University of Rhode Island, Bangor, United Kingdom and Jasper M De Goeij, University of Amsterdam, Freshwater and marine ecology, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Furu Mienis, NIOZ, Den Burg, Netherlands
 
Spatio-temporal anthropogenic footprints on ecosystem drivers of the interior North Atlantic (639542)
Jerry Tjiputra, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway and Leonardo Bertini, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Climate, Norway
 
Exploring the impact of historic shipwrecks on microbial biogeography and sediment geochemistry in the deep Gulf of Mexico. (640557)
Justyna Hampel1, Rachel L Mugge2, Rachel Moseley3, Anirban Ray2 and Leila J Hamdan2, (1)University of Southern Mississippi, Ocean Springs, United States, (2)University of Southern Mississippi, Ocean Springs, MS, United States, (3)University of Southern Mississippi, United States
 
Kuroshio flow – seamount interaction effects on the spatial and temporal variability of the microbial community structure (642748)
Cristy Acabado, University of the Philippines Visayas, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Iloilo, Philippines; NTNU National Taiwan Normal University, Life Science, Taipei, Taiwan, Chung-Chi Chen, NTNU National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan and Ming-Huei Chang, National Taiwan University, Institute of Oceanography, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Characterizing Benthic Macrofaunal Habitats of the Southern California Continental Slope (642947)
David Gillett, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Costa Mesa, CA, United States, Lisa Gilbane, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Ken Schiff, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Costa Mesa, United States
 
Microbial Diversity of Deep-sea Sponges - an Ecological Perspective across Scales (645472)
Kathrin Busch1, Beate M. Slaby1, Hans Tore Rapp2, the SponGES Consortium2 and Ute Hentschel1, (1)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
 
Microbial communities of the deep seafloor sediment and manganese nodules from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Eastern Pacific Ocean (645686)
Julia M. Otte, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
 
Forests of the Deep: High-density deep-sea coral and sponge communities in the Central and Western Pacific (645852)
Thomas F. Hourigan1, Christopher Kelley2, Robert McGuinn3, Sarah Bingo4, Virginia C Moriwake4, Meagan Putts4, Michael Francis Parke5 and Kelley Elliott6, (1)NOAA Habitat Conservation, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (2)University of Hawaii, Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)NOAA, Northern Gulf Institute, Charleston, SC, United States, (4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (5)NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, HI, United States, (6)NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States
 
Why can nematode-prokaryotic symbioses be associated with deep-sea hotspots? (646532)
Jeroen Ingels, Florida State University, St. Teresa, FL, United States; Florida State University, Coastal and Marine Laboratory, St. Teresa, FL, United States and Daniela Zeppilli, IFREMER, EEP-LEP, Plouzané, France
 
The silicon cycle in the aggregations of a deep-water hexactinellid sponge (646774)
María López-Acosta1, Manuel Maldonado1, Lindsay Beazley2, Benoit Casault2 and Ellen Kenchington3, (1)Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB, CSIC), Department of Marine Ecology, Blanes, Spain, (2)Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, (3)Bedforf Institute of Oceanography, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
 
Changes in bacterial communities inhabiting massive sulfide deposits on the Juan de Fuca Ridge across a ~10 My transects. (646859)
Adam Ziegler, Stonehill College, Chemistry, North Easton, MA, United States
 
Synaphobranchid Swarms at Seamount Summits: Biological Hotspots in the Abyssal Ocean (647682)
Astrid Brigitta Leitner, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States; Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, Jeffrey Drazen, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, Craig R Smith, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States and Jennifer M Durden, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom
 
Environmental DNA surveys of metazoan diversity across seamounts and abyssal plains in the western Clarion Clipperton Zone (648333)
Erica Goetze1, Olivier Laroche1, Oliver Kersten2 and Craig R Smith1, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Oslo, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Oslo, Norway
 
A Community Consensus on Designating Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems from Imagery (649194)
Amy Baco-Taylor1, Rebecca Ross2, Franzis Althaus3, Amelia Bridges4, Saskia Brix5, Ana Colaço6, Malcolm R Clark7, Cherisse Du Preez8, Mari-Lise Franken9, Genoveva Gonzalez-Mirelis10, Ellen Kenchington11, Lisa A Levin12, Dhugal Lindsay13, Tina Molodtsova14, Nicole Morgan15, Telmo Morato16, Beatriz Eugenia Mejia-Mercado1, David O'Sullivan17, Karine Olu18, Tabitha Pearman19, David Price19, Katleen Robert20, Ashley Alun Rowden7, James Taylor21, Lisette Victorero22, Les Watling23, Alan Williams3, Chris Yesson24 and the DOSI working group on VMEs from Imagery, (1)Florida State University, Earth, Ocean, Atmospheric Sciences, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (2)Institute of Marine Research, Norway, (3)CSIRO, TAS, Australia, (4)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (5)Seckenberg Research Institute, Germany, (6)University of the Azores, Institute of Marine Research, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, (7)National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand, (8)Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Deep-Sea Ecology Program, Sidney, BC, Canada, (9)South African National Biodiversity Institute, South Africa, (10)Institute of Marine Research Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (11)Bedforf Institute of Oceanography, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, (12)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (13)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan, (14)P.P Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia, (15)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (16)University of Azores, Portugal, (17)Irish Marine Institute, Galway, Ireland, (18)IFREMER, Plouzané, France, (19)National Oceanography Center, Soton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (20)Memorial University of Newfoundland, Fisheries and marine Institute, St John's, NF, Canada, (21)Senckenberg, Germany, (22)Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France, (23)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (24)Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom
 
Microbial intact polar and core lipids in hydrothermal chimneys of the Iheya North Hydrothermal Field in the Mid-Okinawa Trough (649241)
Shunsuke Horai and Hiroshi Naraoka, Kyushu Univ, Fukuoka, Japan
 
Sponges as primary producers of a deep sea sponge ground? (Invited) (650166)
Ulrike Hanz, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Reasearch, den Hoorn, Netherlands, Marcel van der Meer, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, 't Horntje, Netherlands, Philip Riekenberg, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Reasearch, Netherlands, Jasper M De Goeij, University of Amsterdam, Freshwater and marine ecology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Martijn Bart, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Erik Wurz, Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands, Anna de Kluijver, Utrecht University, Netherlands, Hans Tore Rapp, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Gert-Jan Reichart, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands and Furu Mienis, NIOZ, Den Burg, Netherlands
 
Whittard Canyon: a pathway and sink for organic carbon (651092)
Furu Mienis, Sofia Ledin, Marc Lavaleye and Gerard Duineveld, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands
 
Structure of Deep-sea Food Webs at Two Submarine Canyons and Adjacent Slope Habitats: from Trophic Niches to Isoscapes (651339)
Amanda W Demopoulos, U.S.G.S., Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Gainesveille, FL, United States, Jennifer McClain-Counts, USGS, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, United States, Jill R Bourque, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Gainesville, FL, United States, Jason D Chaytor, USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Sandra Brooke, Florida State University, Coastal and Marine Lab, St Teresa, FL, United States, Steve W Ross, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Center for Marine Science, Wilmington, NC, United States, Brian J Smith, USGS, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Gainesville, FL, United States and Furu Mienis, NIOZ, Den Burg, Netherlands
 
Infaunal Communities Associated with Deep-Sea Coral Habitats in the Western Atlantic (Invited) (651360)
Jill R Bourque, US Geological Survey Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Gainesville, FL, United States, Amanda W Demopoulos, US Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Gainesville, FL, United States, Jonathan Quigley, Cherokee Nation Technologies, Contracted to USGS Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Gainesville, FL, United States, Jason D Chaytor, USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Erik E Cordes, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
 
Fine-Scale Natural Variability of Community Distribution on a Low Temperature Discharge Outcrop of a Ridge Flank Hydrothermal System (651713)
Anne Marie Hartwell, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Earth Sciences, Durham, NH, United States and Jennifer Dijkstra, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
 
Taxonomic Diversity and Bathymetric Zonation of Octocorals and Black Corals in National Marine Sanctuaries of Central California (651719)
Gary C. Williams, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, United States
 
Environmental factors drive megabenthic faunal distributions patterns on the East and West wall of Whittard Canyon (651741)
Sofia Ledin1, Gerard Duineveld1, Marc Lavaleye1, Gert-Jan Reichart1,2 and Furu Mienis1, (1)Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Biogeochemical regimes in the oceanic Southeastern United States: Deep-sea black corals and exported primary production (651853)
John Schiff, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, E. Brendan Roark, Texas A&M University College Station, Department of Geography, College Station, TX, United States and Nancy Prouty, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
Possible Food Deliverable Processes to Cold-Water Corals on the Oreo Mound in the Rockall Trough (653682)
Laura Korte1, Furu Mienis2, Dick van Oevelen3, Kirsten Schulz4, Christian Mohn5, Gert-Jan Reichart1 and Gerard Duineveld1, (1)Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands, (2)NIOZ, Den Burg, Netherlands, (3)NIOZ, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, Yerseke, Netherlands, (4)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (5)Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus, Denmark
 
Assessing deep-sea marine metazoan and bacterial community structure in cold-seep, canyon, and cold-water coral reef habitats using high-throughput sequencing of DNA extracted from water samples (653723)
Aaron Aunins1, Cheryl Morrison1 and Christina Kellogg2, (1)USGS Leetown Science Center, Kearneysville, WV, United States, (2)USGS Saint Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States
 
Benthic and Near-Bottom-Water Bacteria and Archaea on Abyssal Plains and Seamounts of the Western Clarion-Clipperton Zone: A Comparison of Community Structure and Functional Potential (654470)
Emma Wear1, Craig R Smith2, Jeffrey Drazen3 and Matthew Church1, (1)University of Montana, Flathead Lake Biological Station, Polson, MT, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States
 
A Mechanistic Modelling Approach to Predict Cold-Water Coral Biomass Based on Organic Matter and Hydrodynamics (655736)
Evert de Froe1, Christian Mohn2, Karline Soetaert3, Anna van der Kaaden3 and Dick van Oevelen3, (1)NIOZ, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Department of Ocean Systems, Den Burg, Netherlands, (2)Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus, Denmark, (3)NIOZ, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, Yerseke, Netherlands
 
How shipwrecks shape microbial biodiversity and biogeography across deep-sea sediments (655899)
Leila J Hamdan1, Justyna Hampel2, Rachel Moseley3, Rachel L Mugge4, Anirban Ray4, Taylor Runyan Lee5 and Warren T Wood6, (1)University of Southern Mississippi, School of Ocean Science and Engineering, Ocean Springs, MS, United States, (2)University of Southern Mississippi, Ocean Springs, United States, (3)University of Southern Mississippi, United States, (4)University of Southern Mississippi, Ocean Springs, MS, United States, (5)US Naval Research Laboratory, Geology and Geophysics, Washington, DC, United States, (6)Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Ctr, MS, United States
 
Exploring the Interactions between Geologic and Biologic Processes in the Poorly Known Submarine Canyons Off Cape Hatteras, U.S. Atlantic Margin (656954)
Jason D Chaytor1, Amanda W Demopoulos2, Martha S Nizinski3, Brian D Andrews1, Ryan Gasbarro4 and Erik E Cordes4, (1)USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)US Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)NOAA, NMFS, National Systematics Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
 
A role for predation in mediating the population dynamics of deep-sea corals? (657780)
James Barry1, Charles A. Boch1, Kurt Randall Buck1, Erica J Burton2, Andrew P DeVogelaere2, Amanda S Kahn3, Chad King4, Linda Kuhnz1, Steven Yitzchak Litvin1, Chris Lovera1, Thomas P Guilderson5 and Patrick Whaling1, (1)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (2)National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Monterey, CA, United States, (3)Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (4)Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary - NOAA, Monterey, CA, United States, (5)LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States
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