Temporal and Spatial Variations of Bacterial and Faunal Communities Associated with Deep-Sea Wood Falls

• Petra Pop Ristova ,

  * E-mail: pristova@marum.de (PPR); Antje.Boetius@awi.de (AB)

  Current address: Hydrothermal Geomicrobiology Group, MARUM ‒ Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  Affiliation HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6215-4257

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• Christina Bienhold,

  Affiliation HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

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• Frank Wenzhöfer,

  Affiliation HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

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• Pamela E. Rossel,

  Affiliations HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, Research Group for Marine Geochemistry (ICBM-MPI Bridging group), Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the marine environment, University of Oldenburg, ICBM, Oldenburg, Germany

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• Antje Boetius

  * E-mail: pristova@marum.de (PPR); Antje.Boetius@awi.de (AB)

  Affiliation HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

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