Sen, Arunima; Åström, Emmelie Karin Linnea; Hong, Wei-Li; Portnov, Aleksei D; Waage, Malin; Serov, Pavel; Carroll, Michael Leslie; Carroll, JoLynn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-25)
Cold-seep megafaunal communities around gas hydrate mounds (pingos) in the western Barents Sea (76°N, 16°E, ∼ 400 m depth) were investigated with high-resolution, geographically referenced images acquired with an ROV and towed camera. Four pingos associated with seabed methane release hosted diverse biological communities of mainly nonseep (background) species including commercially important fish ...