Information - BG6.4 Biogeochemical interactions in chemosynthetic deep-sea ecosystems: methods, tools and strategies
Event Information
The past decade has raised challenging issues about the nature of interactions between the biotic and abiotic components of deep-sea hydrothermal environments and other chemosynthetic habitats (e.g.: methane seeps, massive organic inputs like whales skeletons, wood falls,..etc).
Among these are the diversity and relative importance of microbial metabolisms in carbon fixation and mineralization processes, the role of key-invertebrate species on biogeochemical transformations and fluxes.
Answers to these questions are required to appreciate the response of chemosynthetic ecosystems to environmental disturbance and their potential influence on the global biosphere.
This session will consider new insights to these questions, including inter-disciplinary studies of biogeochemical and geobiological systems and advanced technological developments for the exploration, observation, experimentation and monitoring at relevant scales on the seafloor.
Preliminary List of Solicited Speakers
Co-Sponsorship
InterRidge, EuroDEEP
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