Verena Tunnicliffe

TL;DR: Immediate studies were made at Discovery Bay, where reef populations were already known in some detail, and data collected over succeeding weeks showed striking differences in the ability of organisms to heal and survive.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize current knowledge of the nature, extent and time and space scales of vent and seep interactions with background systems, and document an expanded footprint beyond the site of local venting or seepage with respect to elemental cycling and energy flux, habitat use, trophic interactions, and connectivity.

TL;DR: Hydrothermal vents provide a good testing ground for processes that control patterns in diversity, and faunas on two sides of the Pacific and in the Atlantic have closer relations to each other than to the nearby “normal” deep-sea fauna.

TL;DR: Although more than 80% of the corals in the studied population were broken from their bases, most had become reanchored to regrow rapidly and it appears that this coral has come to dominate much of the Jamaican reef community by propagation through fragmentation.