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Chapter 45 - Hydrothermal Vents and Cold Seeps

from II - Marine Ecosystems and Habitats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2017

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Hydrothermal vents and cold seeps constitute energy hotspots on the seafloor that sustain some of the most unusual ecosystems on Earth. Occurring in diverse geological settings, these environments share high concentrations of reduced chemicals (e.g., methane, sulphide, hydrogen, iron II) that drive primary production by chemosynthetic microbes (Orcutt et al. 2011). Their biota are characterized by a high level of endemism with common specific lineages at the family, genus and even species level, as well as the prevalence of symbioses between invertebrates and bacteria (Dubilier et al., 2008; Kiel, 2009).

Hydrothermal vents are located at mid-ocean ridges, volcanic arcs and back-arc spreading centres or on volcanic hotspots (e.g., Hawaiian archipelago), where magmatic heat sources drive the hydrothermal circulation. Venting systems can also be located well away from spreading centres, where they are driven by exothermic, mineral-fluid reactions (Kelley, 2005) or remanent lithospheric heat (Wheat et al., 2004). Of the 521 vent fields known (as of 2009), 245 are visually confirmed, the other being inferred active by other cues such as tracer anomalies (e.g. temperature, particles, dissolved manganese or methane) in the water column (Beaulieu et al., 2013) (Figure 45.1).

Sediment-hosted seeps occur at both passive continental margins and subduction zones, where they are often supported by subsurface hydrocarbon reservoirs. The migration of hydrocarbon-rich seep fluids is driven by a variety of geophysical processes, such as plate subduction, salt diapirism, gravity compression or the dissociation of methane hydrates. The systematic survey of continental margins has revealed an increasing number of cold seeps worldwide (Foucher et al., 2009; Talukder, 2012). However, no recent global inventory of cold seeps is available.

Both vent and seep ecosystems are made up of a mosaic of habitats covering wide ranges of potential physico-chemical constraints for organisms (e.g., in temperature, salinity, pH, and oxygen, CO2, hydrogen sulphide, ammonia and other inorganic volatiles, hydrocarbon and metal contents) (Fisher et al., 2007; Levin and Sibuet, 2012; Takai and Nakamura, 2010). Some regions (e.g., Mariana Arc or Costa Rica margin) host both types of ecosystems, forming a continuum of habitats that supports species with affinities for vents or seeps (Watanabe et al., 2010; Levin et al., 2012). Habitats indirectly related to hydrothermal venting include inactive sulphide deposits and hydrothermal sediments (German and Von Damm, 2004).

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