Post-Drilling Changes in Seabed Landscape and Megabenthos in a Deep-Sea Hydrothermal System, the Iheya North Field, Okinawa Trough

• Ryota Nakajima ,

  * E-mail: nakajimar@jamstec.go.jp

  Affiliation Department of Marine Biodiversity Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2–15 Natsushima, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 237–0061, Japan

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• Hiroyuki Yamamoto,

  Affiliation Research and Development Center for Submarine Resources, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2–15 Natsushima, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 237–0061, Japan

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• Shinsuke Kawagucci,

  Affiliations Research and Development Center for Submarine Resources, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2–15 Natsushima, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 237–0061, Japan, Laboratory of Ocean-Earth Life Evolution Research (OELE), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2–15 Natsushima, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 237–0061, Japan, Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research (D-SUGAR), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2–15 Natsushima, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 237–0061, Japan

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• Yutaro Takaya,

  Affiliation Research and Development Center for Submarine Resources, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2–15 Natsushima, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 237–0061, Japan

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• Tatsuo Nozaki,

  Affiliations Research and Development Center for Submarine Resources, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2–15 Natsushima, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 237–0061, Japan, Department of Systems Innovation, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–8656, Japan

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• Chong Chen,

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, United Kingdom

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• Katsunori Fujikura,

  Affiliation Department of Marine Biodiversity Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2–15 Natsushima, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 237–0061, Japan

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• Tetsuya Miwa,

  Affiliations Research and Development Center for Submarine Resources, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2–15 Natsushima, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 237–0061, Japan, Marine Technology and Engineering Center (MARITEC), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2–15 Natsushima, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 237–0061, Japan

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• Ken Takai

  Affiliations Research and Development Center for Submarine Resources, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2–15 Natsushima, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 237–0061, Japan, Laboratory of Ocean-Earth Life Evolution Research (OELE), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2–15 Natsushima, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 237–0061, Japan, Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research (D-SUGAR), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2–15 Natsushima, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 237–0061, Japan

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