video: Video of the Crimean shelf seafloor in anoxic waters. Sediment at 200m water depth has a particularly even surface that does not show any traces of animal life. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 10, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by G.L. Jessen at Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, and colleagues was titled, 'Hypoxia causes preservation of labile organic matter and changes seafloor microbial community composition (Black Sea).' view more
Credit: [Credit: JAGO-Team, GEOMAR Kiel, Germany]