Parent project: Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - EU Network of Excellence, more
Acronym: DEEPSETS
Period: May 2005 till December 2008
Status: Completed
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| Institutes (10) |
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- University of Southampton; National Oceanography Centre, Southampton; Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems (OBE), more, partner
- University of Southampton; National Oceanography Centre, Southampton; School of Ocean & Earth Science (SOES), more, partner
- Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer; Centre de Brest, more, partner
- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), more, partner
- Universiteit Gent (UGent), more, partner
- Natural History Museum (NHM), more, partner
- University of the Azores (UAC), more, partner
- Senckenberg Nature Research Society (SGN), more, partner
- Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI), more, partner
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Institut National de Science de l'Univers; Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille; UMR 6540 - DIMAR, more, partner
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| Abstract |
Objectives:
- To determine the major faunal changes that have taken place at a time series station on the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP) over a 19-year period (1989 to 2008).
- To determine the major faunal changes that have taken place in the abyssal Eastern Mediterranean over a sampling period of 17 years (1989 to 2006) and to distinguish between spatial and temporal change, where possible.
- To determine the major faunal changes that have taken place at the Lucky Strike hydrothermal vent field over a 10-year period (1996 to 2006).
- To determine the major faunal changes that have taken place at the Haakon Mosby Mud Volcano (HMMV) and Hausgarten chemosynthetic communities over an 8-year period (1999 to 2007).
- To determine the major faunal changes that have taken place at a time series station in the La Ciotat 3PP Cave over a 14-year period (1992 to 2006).
- To integrate research on time series observations in deep-sea seabed ecosystems.
Description of work - tasks:
- Identify the 10 to 15 dominant nematode, copepod and polychaete species in the PAP time series between 1989 and 2004, and in new samples as they become available.
- Collate and integrate data for all size classes (meiofauna to megafauna) and all taxa from the PAP time series and determine temporal change in species dominance.
- Identify the 10 to 15 dominant nematode, copepod and polychaetes species in the Eastern Mediterranean time series between 1989 and 2004, and in new samples in 2006.
- Collate and integrate data for all size classes, assess temporal change in the Eastern Mediterranean and compare with the PAP.
- Document and process newly discovered species from the Lucky Strike hydrothermal vent field.
- Characterise species at Lucky Strike using molecular and morphological approaches to taxonomy.
- Collate data and identify key species and changes in time at Lucky Strike by data mining through the IFREMER BIOCEAN database.
- Analyse video/photographic images at Lucky Strike from seven submersible cruises
- Identify and document dominant meiofaunal and macrofaunal species in the HMMV and Hausgarten chemosynthetic communities
- Characterise species at HMMV and Hausgarten using molecular and morphological approaches.
- Collate data on dominant species in all size classes in a database at HMMV and Hausgarten, and analyse temporal changes
- Identify the 10 to 15 dominant nematode, copepod and polychaete species in the cave time series.
- Characterise new cave species in all taxa using molecular and morphological approaches.
- Collate and integrate data for all size classes of cave fauna and study variation with time.
- Integrate research on time series observations
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