Oxygen-minimum zone sediments in the northeastern Arabian Sea off Pakistan : a habitat for the bacterium Thioploca

Filamentous sulfur-oxidizing bacteria and geochemical parameters of sediments at the Makran Accretionary Wedge in the northeastern Arabian Sea off Pakistan were studied. The upper continental slope between 350 and 850 m water depth, which is in the center of the oxygen-minimum zone, is characterized...

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Published in:Marine ecology. Progress series (Halstenbek) 2001-01, Vol.211, p.27-42
Main Authors: SCHMALJOHANN, Rolf, DREWS, Manuela, WALTER, Sylvia, LINKE, Peter, VON RAD, Ulrich, IMHOFF, Johannes F
Format: Article
Language:English
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Animal, plant and microbial ecology
Beggiatoa
Biological and medical sciences
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
General aspects
Marine
Microbial ecology
Pakistan
sulfur-oxidizing bacteria
Thioploca
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Summary:Filamentous sulfur-oxidizing bacteria and geochemical parameters of sediments at the Makran Accretionary Wedge in the northeastern Arabian Sea off Pakistan were studied. The upper continental slope between 350 and 850 m water depth, which is in the center of the oxygen-minimum zone, is characterized by numerous sites of small-scale seeps of methane- and sulfide-charged porewater. White bacterial mats with diameters
ISSN:0171-8630
1616-1599
DOI:10.3354/meps211027