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Quantifying dispersal from hydrothermal vent fields in the western Pacific Ocean.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Mar 2016
Mitarai Satoshi, Watanabe Hiromi, Nakajima Yuichi, Shchepetkin Alexander F, McWilliams James C
Abstract excerpt
Hydrothermal vent fields in the western Pacific Ocean are mostly distributed along spreading centers in submarine basins behind convergent plate boundaries. Larval dispersal resulting from deep-ocean circulations is one of the major factors influencing gene flow, diversity, and distributions of vent animals. By combining a biophysical model and deep-profiling float experiments, we quantify potential larval...
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