Navigation Links
Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss
Date:11/22/2009

rs (~.62 miles) and 17,650 species for which all recorded observations are deeper than 200 meters, the depth where darkness stops photosynthesis.

Scientists working on the deep-sea Census number 344 and span 34 nations.

By the time the 10-year Census concludes in October, 2010, the five deep-sea projects will have collectively fielded more than 210 expeditions, including the first ever MAR-ECO voyage in October-November this year, to explore the Mid-Atlantic Ridge south of the Equator, a scientific collaboration between Russia, Brazil, South Africa and Uruguay.

Each voyage is hugely expensive and challenged by often extreme ocean conditions and requirements that have kept the remotest reaches of Neptune's realm impenetrable until recently.

While the collective findings are still being analyzed for release as part of the final Census report to be released in London on October 4, 2010, scientists say patterns of the abundance, distribution and diversity of deep-sea life around the world are already apparent.

"Abundance is mostly a function of available food and decreases rapidly with depth," says Robert S. Carney of Louisiana State University, co-leader (with Myriam Sibuet of France) of the Census project COMARGE, studying life along the world's continental margins.

"The continental margins are where we find the transition from abundant food made by photosynthesis to darkened poverty. The transitions display the intriguing adaptations and survival strategies of amazing species," says Dr. Carney.

Abundance in the deep sea requires one or more of the following:

  • Swift current, which increases an animal's chance of encountering food;
  • Long-lived animals, populations of which grow numerous even on a meager diet;
  • Abundant food in higher layers that either settles to the depths or to which deep animals can migrate;
  • An alternative to photosynthesis of food, such as chemosynthetic
    '/>"/>

Contact: Terry Collins
terrycollins@rogers.com
416-538-8712
Census of Marine Life
Source:Eurekalert  

0

GOOD

Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Related biology news :

1. Beyond genomics, biologists and engineers decode the next frontier
2. Frost & Sullivan Looks at Biometrics Advancement in Civil Security: Exploring Opportunities for Today and Beyond
3. Beyond ooh-ooh, aah-aah-- expert on monkey communication kicks off Darwin series, May 5
4. Researchers push nature beyond its limits to create higher-density biofuels
5. Research-based undergraduate course expands beyond Washington University
6. UCLA world summit to explore ancient life on Earth, and beyond
7. Shrimps see beyond the rainbow
8. Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of paper
9. Explorers marvel at Brittlestar City on seamount in powerful current swirling around Antarctica
10. Species explorers ask: Whats on Your planet?
11. First ever worldwide census analysis of caribou/reindeer numbers reveals dramatic decline
Post Your Comments:
*Name:
*Comment:
*Email:
Related Image:
Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss
(Date:5/17/2013)... An international team of scientists using a new ... inside a living frog embryo in greater detail than ... advance biological research and the search for new treatments ... Karlsruher Institut fr Technologie in Germany, in collaboration with ... Energy,s Argonne National Laboratory, released the most precise depiction ...
(Date:5/16/2013)... FASEB MARC (Maximizing Access to Research Careers) Program ... Endocrine Society (ENDO) 95th Annual Meeting in San ... are meant to promote the entry of students, ... mainstream of the basic science community and to ... ENDO 2013 Annual Meeting. , Awards are given ...
(Date:5/16/2013)... living closer to a fast food restaurant had a ... further away from fast food, according to researchers at ... this association was particularly strong among those with a ... in the American Journal of Public Health ... fast food restaurant, and among lower-income African-Americans, the density, ...
Breaking Biology News(10 mins):New X-ray method shows how frog embryos could help thwart disease 2Body mass index of low income African-Americans linked to proximity of fast food restaurants 2Body mass index of low income African-Americans linked to proximity of fast food restaurants 3
... 2011) Researchers looking to find a root cause for ... a novel investigative approach that borders on science fiction as ... the nation,s No. 1 killer. The National Institutes of ... Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) of San Diego and Sangamo ...
... wide variety of new cut flower cultivars and species ... University and the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers. ... United States and Canada, provides valuable production and marketing ... team from North Carolina State University undertook a multiyear ...
... Stephane Len, both researchers at the IRMES (Institut de ... France), have published their findings in Age , ... the evolution of performances in elite athletes and chess ... developed by the laboratory, and suggests that changes in ...
Cached Biology News:Scripps awarded $7.9 million NIH grant for research to find root cause of heart attack 2Scripps awarded $7.9 million NIH grant for research to find root cause of heart attack 3Scripps awarded $7.9 million NIH grant for research to find root cause of heart attack 4Extending the vase life of cut flowers: Pre-treatments and preservatives studied 2Evolution of sport performances follows a physiological law 2
(Date:5/20/2013)... , Md. and BALTIMORE , May ... (BHI), a regional private-public partnership focusing on commercializing ... funding in Central Maryland , ... M.B.A., as the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) for BHI ... National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). ...
(Date:5/20/2013)... May 20, 2013 Rhythm announced today the ... RM-131, the company,s novel ghrelin agonist for the treatment ... trial demonstrated that RM-131 significantly accelerates early gastric emptying ... diabetic patients with diabetic gastroparesis. The findings were presented ... Orlando and recently published in ...
(Date:5/20/2013)... (PRWEB) May 20, 2013 Recognizing ... young faculty members to its 2013 Class of ... the company will provide this outstanding international group ... in advancing basic science to meet global challenges.     ... to help promising young and untenured research faculty ...
(Date:5/20/2013)... 2013 In Early 2013, Dr. ... biotoxin related illnesses , announced his vision for creating ... advance his protocol for treating Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome ... physician to achieve certification in the Shoemaker Protocol. ... practice the Shoemaker Protocol in other parts of the ...
Breaking Biology Technology:BioHealth Innovation, Inc. Names Ram Aiyar as Entrepreneur-in-Residence to NIH National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute 2BioHealth Innovation, Inc. Names Ram Aiyar as Entrepreneur-in-Residence to NIH National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute 3BioHealth Innovation, Inc. Names Ram Aiyar as Entrepreneur-in-Residence to NIH National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute 4Rhythm Announces Phase 1b Results for Ghrelin Prokinetic RM-131 for Gastroparesis in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes 2Rhythm Announces Phase 1b Results for Ghrelin Prokinetic RM-131 for Gastroparesis in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes 3DuPont Celebrates Scientific Innovation by Recognizing Young Professors 2DuPont Celebrates Scientific Innovation by Recognizing Young Professors 3Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker Certifies Third Physician in His Treatment Protocol for Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) 2
... May 23, 2012 Reportlinker.com announces ... is available in its catalogue: ... to 2018 - Novel Oral JAK ... Drugs (DMARD) Will Drive Continued Growth ...
... Oxford, May 22, 2012 - Researchers in Ireland have ... glasses to produce high-precision molds for making tiny plastic ... be used in the next generation of computer memory ... In their article published in the latest edition of ...
... 2012   GeneLink, Inc. (OTCBB: GNLK.OB, "the ... financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2012. ... February 10, 2012 the Company closed on the sale of ... transaction entered into in October 2011. The sale price was ...
Cached Biology Technology:Arthritis Therapeutics Market to 2018 - Novel Oral JAK Inhibitors and Biologic Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARD) Will Drive Continued Growth Across Key Indications 2Arthritis Therapeutics Market to 2018 - Novel Oral JAK Inhibitors and Biologic Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARD) Will Drive Continued Growth Across Key Indications 3Arthritis Therapeutics Market to 2018 - Novel Oral JAK Inhibitors and Biologic Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARD) Will Drive Continued Growth Across Key Indications 4Arthritis Therapeutics Market to 2018 - Novel Oral JAK Inhibitors and Biologic Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARD) Will Drive Continued Growth Across Key Indications 5Arthritis Therapeutics Market to 2018 - Novel Oral JAK Inhibitors and Biologic Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARD) Will Drive Continued Growth Across Key Indications 6Arthritis Therapeutics Market to 2018 - Novel Oral JAK Inhibitors and Biologic Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARD) Will Drive Continued Growth Across Key Indications 7Arthritis Therapeutics Market to 2018 - Novel Oral JAK Inhibitors and Biologic Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARD) Will Drive Continued Growth Across Key Indications 8Arthritis Therapeutics Market to 2018 - Novel Oral JAK Inhibitors and Biologic Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARD) Will Drive Continued Growth Across Key Indications 9Arthritis Therapeutics Market to 2018 - Novel Oral JAK Inhibitors and Biologic Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARD) Will Drive Continued Growth Across Key Indications 10Arthritis Therapeutics Market to 2018 - Novel Oral JAK Inhibitors and Biologic Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARD) Will Drive Continued Growth Across Key Indications 11Arthritis Therapeutics Market to 2018 - Novel Oral JAK Inhibitors and Biologic Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARD) Will Drive Continued Growth Across Key Indications 12Making microscopic machines using metallic glass 2GeneLink Reports First Quarter 2012 Financial Results 2
Alexa Fluor 647 anti-mouse Qa-2...
Mouse monoclonal [0.T.81] to Lac1 ( Abpromise for all tested applications). Antigen: Recombinant TrpE fusion protein containing full length E. coli Lac1....
Peptide-affinity Purified Polyclonal Antibody to ICEBERG Peptide with sequence EEDPQLASKMGLH, from C Terminus of the protein sequence according to NP_067546...
3T3 cells (RSV-transformed) Source: Cell Lysate Form: Ready to Use Application: Western Blotting Control...
Biology Products: