Methane-Carbon Flow into the Benthic Food Web at Cold Seeps – A Case Study from the Costa Rica Subduction Zone

• Helge Niemann ,

  * E-mail: helge.niemann@unibas.ch

  Affiliations Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

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• Peter Linke,

  Affiliations Sonderforschungsbereich 574, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany

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• Katrin Knittel,

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

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• Enrique MacPherson,

  Affiliation Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), Blanes, Spain

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• Antje Boetius,

  Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, Alfred Wegener Institute for Marine and Polar Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

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• Warner Brückmann,

  Affiliations Sonderforschungsbereich 574, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany

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• Gaute Larvik,

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

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• Klaus Wallmann,

  Affiliations Sonderforschungsbereich 574, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany

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• Ulrike Schacht,

  Current address: CO2CRC, Australian School of Petroleum, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

  Affiliation Sonderforschungsbereich 574, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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• Enoma Omoregie,

  Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC/INTA), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain

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• David Hilton,

  Affiliation Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, United States of America

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• Kevin Brown,

  Affiliation Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, United States of America

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• Gregor Rehder

  Affiliations Sonderforschungsbereich 574, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), Rostock, Germany

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