Examples of deep sea in the following topics:
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- A piezophile (also called a barophile) is an organism which thrives at high pressures, such as deep sea bacteria or archaea.
- Since the 19th century however, research has demonstrated that significant biodiversity exists in the deep sea.
- Zones of the deep sea include the mesopelagic zone, the bathyal zone, the abyssal zone, and the hadal zone.
- A piezophile, also called a barophile, is an organism which thrives at high pressures, such as deep sea bacteria or archaea.
- These organisms have adapted in novel ways to become tolerant of these pressures in order to colonize deep sea habitats.
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- Recently there has been the discovery of abundant marine life in the deep sea, especially around hydrothermal vents.
- Large deep sea communities of marine life have been discovered around black and white smokers – hydrothermal vents emitting typical chemicals toxic to humans and most of the vertebrates.
- Marine life also flourishes around seamounts that rise from the depths, where fish and other sea life congregate to spawn and feed.
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- They are typically found deep below the surface of the ocean.
- In most shallow water and terrestrial ecosystems, energy comes from sunlight, but in the deep ocean there is total darkness.
- As mineral resources on land have become depleted, mining companies have turned to deep sea geothermal vents to extract metals and sulfur.
- Although the technology for deep sea mining is new, conservation biologists are concerned that mining hydrothermal vents will destroy these fragile and unique ecosystems.
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- Chemoautotrophs are able to thrive in very harsh environments, such as deep sea vents, due to their lack of dependence on outside sources of carbon other than carbon dioxide.
- Chemoautotrophs include nitrogen fixing bacteria located in the soil, iron oxidizing bacteria located in the lava beds, and sulfur oxidizing bacteria located in deep sea thermal vents.
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- An example of this is chemolithotrophic bacteria in deep sea worms or plastids, which are organelles within plant cells that may have evolved from photolithotrophic cyanobacteria-like organisms.
- An example of this is chemolithotrophic bacteria in deep sea worms or plastids, which are organelles within plant cells that may have evolved from photolithotrophic cyanobacteria-like organisms .
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- A member of the class Epsilonproteobacteria occurs as an endosymbiont in the large gills of the deep water sea snail Alviniconcha hessleri.
- Often the epsilonproteobacteria living in hydrothermal deep sea-vents exhibit chemolithotrophic features, and they are able to meet their energy needs by reducing or oxidixing chemical compounds.
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- They live and thrive in all parts of the biosphere where there is liquid water, including hostile environments such as the poles, deserts, geysers, rocks, and the deep sea.
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- Most chemoautotrophs are bacteria and archaea that live in hostile environments (such as deep sea vents).
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- Marine life partially depends on the saltwater that is in the sea ("marine" comes from the Latin "mare," meaning sea or ocean).
- Open ocean habitats are found in the deep ocean beyond the edge of the continental shelf.
- In addition, in the open ocean there are surface waters, deep sea and sea floor.
- An estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
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- Halophiles thrive in places such as the Great Salt Lake , Owens Lake in California, evaporation ponds, and the Dead Sea - places that provide an inhospitable environment to most lifeforms.
- These are the primary inhabitants of salt lakes, inland seas, and evaporating ponds of seawater.
- The red color of deep salterns is due to the carotenoids (organic pigment) in these archaea.
- Salt builds up along the Dead Sea.