A History Of Life

1. Sperm whales carcasses at the shelf break
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

Finally some evidence on the sulphophilic stage of whale-fall communities at relatively shallow depths. The ecosystem that develops around a carcass of a large cetacean undergoes four successional sta

2. Whale-fall bivalves
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

...elfal fishes and invertebrates may gather around a whale-carcass following successional stages at shelfal depths. With this respect, they do much the same as in bathyal environments. Fossils ar...

3. Whale-fall communities on the shelf
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

... highly localized, ephemeral sources of food in a vast plain of small organic content such as the oceanic depths. However, while the deep water nectic and benthic assemblages associated with large wh...