Deep-Sea Animals and their food chain?

Question

In my project, I am suppose to make a food web of Deep-Sea animals. Can you name some animals (including decomposers, parasites, compopsers) that live in the Deep-Sea and what they eat or eats them? If you find it from a site, please give me the link to the site? thanks

Answer 1

One special deep-sea community is the hydrothermal vent communities that are located along the mid-oceanic ridges and other underground volcanic features. The base of the food chain in these communities are called "chemosynthetic" bacteria because they do not use sunlight to make food, they use hydrogen sulfide, a chemical. These bacteria reside in the tissues of tube worms (a symbiotic relationship). There are small crabs that feed on these tube worms as well as the bacteria that also coat the sides of these hydrothermal vents. In this community there are not too many organisms because the pressures and the temperatures are quite extreme. These communities were discovered in the 1970's when the Wood's Hole Oceanogrphic Institute developed a deep-sea diving submersible called ALVIN and used it to explore these very deep trenches. Google some of the following: HYDROTHERMAL VENT COMMUNITIES; BLACK SMOKERS; WHITE SMOKERS; TUBE WORMS; CHEMOSYNTHETIC BACTERIA; ALVIN.

Hope you enjoy reading about this. I did my graduate paper on these communities. They are quite fascinating. A side note you might think interesting: We cannot bring these organisms to the surface alive to study. The reason being is that they are adapted to the extreme pressures of the deep ocean. When we bring them to the surface, their internal pressures result in them exploding!

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Answer 2

Deep Sea Food Chain

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Deep-Sea Animals and their food chain?
In my project, I am suppose to make a food web of Deep-Sea animals. Can you name some animals (including decomposers, parasites, compopsers) that live in the Deep-Sea and what they eat or eats them? If you find it from a site, please give me the link to the site? thanks