A History Of Life

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

...urface, the other below. References Dahlgren, T.G., Wiklund, H., Källström, B., Lundälv, T., Smith, C.R., Glover, A.G. 2006. A shallow-water whale-fall experiment in the north Atlantic. L...

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

...hale testify at least of two of the three successional stages that bound modern whale-fall communities (Smith & Baco 2003), namely the first, or mobile-scavenger stage, and the third, the sulph...

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

...the whale carcass: a mobile-scavenger stage, an enrichment-opportunist stage, and a sulphophilic stage (Smith & Baco 2003). Invertebrates associated with the sulphophilic stage, such as the bival...