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 The Deep Sea at MarineBio.org - Ocean biology, Marine life, Sea creatures, Marine conservation...
The advent of deep manned and remotely-operated submersibles with various devices for capturing organisms, including presurized retrieval systems, has further advanced our understanding of these areas by permitting observation and retrieval of living organisms for study.
The eruption of lava onto the sea floor and the creation of a new black smoker represent the start of a new phase in the life cycle of vent communities.
It is remarkable that deep sea hydrothermal ecosystems, fueled by the heat of volcanic processes, can support life in the absence of sunlight.
http://www.marinebio.com/Oceans/TheDeep

  
 ~Deep Sea Vents~
A range of systems are studied from the land-sea margins to deep sea hydrothermal vents.
Because these deep sea hydrothermal vents could be the most ancient sites of life on Earth.
The second unit, "Journey to the Deep Sea Vents," explores the deep sea vent communities...
http://www.ventinfo.com/Vent6/deepseavents

  
 Deep-Sea Cephalopods: An Introduction and Overview
The intrusion of research equipment into the animals' otherwise unchanging habitat almost certainly affects their behavior; it is possible that no behavioral observations made to date have recorded anything more than threat-responses stimulated by the intrusion of our awkward and cumbersome deep sea technology.
From evolutionary accidents to the pinnacles of success, the deep-sea cephalopod fauna exhibit fascinating physiological, morphological, and behavioral modifications.
The difficulties in observing deep-sea animals live in situ leave scientists with a regrettable dearth of information on normal behaviors.
http://www.tonmo.com/science/public/deepseacephs.php

  
 Creatures of the Deep
The discovery of the deep-sea thermal vents and the communities of life they support has completely changed the way we define life, perhaps going a long way to explain how life on earth first began.
Giant tubeworms that live around hydrothermal vents on the sea floor.
For for information about deep-sea hydrothermal vents and the bizarre life forms that live there go visit these websites:
http://www.extremescience.com/deepcreat5.htm

  
 DEEP-SEA Pages (Paul Yancey, Whitman College)
Life in the deep sea must adapt to unique conditions of low or no light, high pressure, low energy (except at hot vents and cold hydrocarbon seeps), and near-freezing or--at hot vents--superheated temperatures.
Tubeworms at vents may be the fastest growing animals in the world.
PART Ia. LIFE and ZONES of the DEEP:
http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/deepsea.html

  
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 Edge: AN ECO-EVOLUTIONARY DANCE THROUGH DEEP TIME
A similar eco-evolutionary problem I have been pursuing, one that also involves Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from North America, is the evolution of gigantism in large carnivores.
Yet a low maintenance metabolism was not enough to result in the evolution of gigantism.
His work on dinosaurs is concerned with new ideas involved in negotiating the "eco-evolutionary dance through deep time".
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/sampson04/sampson04_index.html

  
 Giant isopod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
giganteus, giant isopods are good example of deep-sea gigantism; most other isopods range in size from 1–5 centimetres (cf.
Their morphology is nonetheless familiar to most people as giant isopods closely resemble their terrestrial cousins, the woodlice: their bodies are dorso-ventrally compressed, protected by a rigid, calcareous exoskeleton composed of imbricate segments.
As food is scarce in the deep ocean biome, giant isopods must make do with what fortune brings; they are adapted to long periods of famine and have been known to survive over eight weeks without food in the aquarium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod

  
 OUP: Biology of the Deep: Herring
A chapter on animal life styles emphasizes the links between size, sex, and seasonality, visible in the contrasting benefits of gigantism, dwarf males and the ability to respond to a periodic influx of food from the surface.
The book begins with an analysis of how conditions in the oceanic environment differ from those in the familiar terrestrial world and then describes the techniques (and ingenuity) required to reveal the populations inhabiting the colossal volume of the deep oceans.
Accounts of the effector systems involved in colour, camouflage and bioluminescence heighten the concept of a different world.
http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-854956-3?view=00

  
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 Deep-sea gigantism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In zoology, deep-sea gigantism, also known as abyssal gigantism, is the tendency for species of crustaceans and other invertebrates to display a larger size than their shallow-water counterparts.
One of the most extreme examples of this phenomenon is the giant squid, which can grow up to 13 metres in length.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-sea_gigantism

  
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to investigate the evolutionary processes and oceanographic changes which have resulted in the present biodiversity and distributional patterns in the Antarctic deep seas
Thus the Weddell Sea may be an important source for taxa presently living in the Atlantic and other neighbouring parts of the deep oceans.
to assess the importance of the Antarctic region as a possible source for many of the deep sea benthic taxa in other oceans.
http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/zim/niedere2/andeep.html

  
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 Daily Journal Dec 14
However, one other habitat that often exhibits gigantism is the deep sea, and the most obvious common factor that the both habitats share is cold water…very cold water.
Pycnogonids, or sea spiders (see December 6th journal photo), are one such example.
It may be the high seasonal availability of nutrients or the up-welling of nutrients from deeper waters.
http://auburn.edu/academic/science_math/research/antarctic/journal1214.htm

  
 R. Austin Freeman : John Thorndyke's Cases : VIII. A Message from the Deep Sea
We had been to the London Hospital to see a remarkable case of acromegaly, and, as we returned, we discussed this curious affection, and the allied condition of gigantism, in all their bearings, from the origin of the "Gibson chin" to the physique of Og, King of Bashan.
The cause of death was a deep wound extending right across the throat and dividing all the structures down to the spine.
The warehouses in which the sponges are unpacked are often strewn with it ankle deep; the men who unpack the cases become dusted over with it, their clothes saturated and their pockets filled with it.
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 Deep Sea Ecology
most organisms of the deep sea grow slowly, but live for a long time
there may be over 10 million different species in the deep sea; more than rain forests and coral reefs
echinoderms dominate the ocean floor (mainly sea cucumbers - some with "legs", some herd)
http://www.plankton.uhh.hawaii.edu/MARE171/171-34-deepsea.html

  
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 B361 (2002) - P4 Deep Sea
-Most organisms are small, but some taxa show abyssal gigantism
-Deep sea realms have cold temperatures, high pressure, no light, little food
1) The deep sea (below photosynthesis depths) constitutes almost 90% of the ocean¹s volume, but we know little about it.
http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/courses.hp/biol361/LecOutl-02/P04outline.htm

  
 deepsea1
particles accumulate on bottom, so there are more bacteria and other organisms on the bottom than in the deep water column
higher abundance and diversity of life than elsewhere in the deep sea
C. Deep scattering layers (DSL) --vertical migration like in the epipelagic, but to even deeper water during the day
http://www.esf.edu/efb/schulz/MarineEcology/deepsea1.html

  
 Houghton Mifflin College
Study finds oxygen key element in polar sea gigantism (CNN 5/12)
Carbon levels in the Earth's atmosphere have gone up about 25 percent since the Industrial Revolution primarily due to the burning of oil, coal and natural gas to supply about 80 percent of the world's energy needs.
"Injecting carbon dioxide directly into deep ocean waters might help put a brake on the greenhouse effect, the first field test of the idea suggests."
http://college.hmco.com/geology/resources/geologylink/news/5-99.html

  
 B361 - Lec09 Outline. Deep Sea (1998)
iv) are numerous examples of ABYSSAL GIGANTISM (e.g.
1) Deep sea was thought an "AZOOIC ZONE" until late 1800's
ii) Challenger Expedition (1872-76) set out to test this, and found a great diversity of life in the deep ocean
http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/courses.hp/biol361/LecOutl-98/outl09.htm

  
 abyssal: Definition, Synonyms and Much More From Answers.com
Meaning #2: so deep as to be unmeasurable; unfathomable
Meaning #1: relating to ocean depths from 2000 to 5000 meters
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2004, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
http://www.answers.com/topic/abyssal

  
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http://students.washington.edu/luedtke/prosub.html

  
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