Louisville Ridge
SO313: LOUISVILLE RIDGE - The development and composition of ferromanganese crusts and biological communities in association with hydrographic features of the Louisville Ridge (SW Pacific)
Funding: BMBF
Period: 2025 - 2027
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The project LOUISVILLE RIDGE aims to study the development and composition of ferromanganese crusts and biological communities in association with hydrographic features on the Louisville Ridge seamount chain in the SW Pacific. Seamounts are common and prominent features in the deep ocean. Environmental parameters together with seafloor characteristics that vary with depth are believed to determine species composition on seamounts. The physical structure of seamounts together with their spatial separation enable the formation of localized hydrographic features which may contribute to faunal isolation at some seamounts and accumulation at others. In this project, an international team of geologists, biologists, geochemists, and physical oceanographers collaborate to investigate the key determinants of benthic species distribution on the Louisville Ridge in relation to the occurrence and composition of ferromanganese crusts and to localized hydrographic features. |
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