Community structure and distributional pattern of meiofauna in the deep-sea bottom of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone of the Northeastern Pacific

Abstract

The study was conducted to investigate the community structure and distributional pattern of miofauna in the deep-sea bottom of the Clarion- Clipperton Fracture zone of the northeastern Pacific in July 2001, july 2003 and August 2004. Meiobenthic samples wee collected using the multiple corer at 33 stations (13 stations along the transects from 5N to 17N, 8 stations in the nodule area and 11 stations along the parellel line of 10N between 128 to 135W).