Census of Marine Life: Handbook of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna

Desbruyeres, Segonzak & Bright, eds. 2006. HANDBOOK OF DEEP-SEA HYDROTHERMAL VENT FAUNA. Denisia 18:1-455 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.376.2677&rep=rep1&type=pdf . ChEss (Chemosynthitic Ecosystem Science) is a field project of the Census of Marine Life programme (CoML). The main aim of ChEss is to determine the biogeography of deep-water chemosynthetic ecosystems at a global scale and to understand the processes driving these ecosystems. ChEss addresses the main questions of CoML on diversity, abundance and distribution of marine species, focusing on deep-water reducing environments such as hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, whale falls, sunken wood and areas of low oxygen that intersect with continental margins and seamounts.