GENERAL INDEX
569
wood on seafloor, 166, 271, 274, 284, 353, 354, 396, 406, 408,
414
– bark, 354
– blocks, 166, 314
– borers, 166
– boring, 354
– colonization, 354
– twigs, 354
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2
Working Group on Seabed Activities (SEBA), 434
World War II, 313, 316, 317
Wyville Thomson Ridge (Atlantic Ocean), 134, 329
xenophyophores (see also Xenophyophora in Systematic Index)
– Atlantic Ocean, 112, 341
– – growth rates, 150
– – Northwest African margin, 140
– deep-sea species, 16, 27
– dissolved organic matter as food source, 359
– growth rates, 30, 31, 349
– Pacific Ocean, 201, 202, 204
– – Pacific oligotrophic abyss, 207, 209
– passive particle traps, 341
– seamounts, 210
– tests, 210
xylophagids, 30, 395, 396, 406, 408, 414
Yamamoto Basin (Sea of Japan), 275
yeasts, 189
Yellow River, 179
Yucatan Basin (Caribbean Sea), 269
Yucatan Sill (Caribbean Sea), 271
Yucatan Strait (Caribbean Sea), 269, 271
zoantharians, 138, 402, 403
zoarcids, 100, 112, 129, 130, 287
zonation, 53, 125, 134, 286
– bathymetric, 44, 53
zoogeographic barriers, 129
zooplankton, 120, 316, 318, 320, 332, 341, 359, 366, 451
– bathypelagic, 330
– large, 316
– metabolic rates, 333