Comments on: A Lonely Tree Far From Home Brings New Life to the Ocean Deep: A Narrative in Five Acts https://deepseanews.com/2012/04/a-lonely-tree-far-from-home-brings-new-life-to-the-ocean-deep-a-narrative-in-five-acts/ All the news on the Earth's largest environment. Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:34:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://csrtech.com By: The Second World That Forms On Sunken Trees – Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science https://deepseanews.com/2012/04/a-lonely-tree-far-from-home-brings-new-life-to-the-ocean-deep-a-narrative-in-five-acts/#comment-8641 Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:34:11 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=17231#comment-8641 […] biologist and writer at Deep Sea News, studies one of these temporary worlds. They’re called woodfalls. They’re the odd bits of rotting wood that sink to the ocean floor when ships are capsized or […]

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By: Thomas Dahlgren https://deepseanews.com/2012/04/a-lonely-tree-far-from-home-brings-new-life-to-the-ocean-deep-a-narrative-in-five-acts/#comment-8640 Wed, 09 May 2012 09:04:25 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=17231#comment-8640 I was there with Adrian & Craig S doing something similar around the Chanel Island some 10 years back. Connectivity?

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By: Thomas Dahlgren https://deepseanews.com/2012/04/a-lonely-tree-far-from-home-brings-new-life-to-the-ocean-deep-a-narrative-in-five-acts/#comment-8639 Wed, 09 May 2012 08:47:24 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=17231#comment-8639 Any Ophryotrochas? The fringed tube ampharetids in the surrounding sediment are also very interesting.

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By: Making science out of chucking stuff into the sea « the eclectic limpet https://deepseanews.com/2012/04/a-lonely-tree-far-from-home-brings-new-life-to-the-ocean-deep-a-narrative-in-five-acts/#comment-8638 Wed, 09 May 2012 07:40:17 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=17231#comment-8638 […] that had been sunk by Dr. M 5 years previously, and sinking the plant material I had collected. In Dr. M’s excellent post on Deep-Sea News, you can read all about the whole process of wood community formation, from how the wood gets to […]

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By: Dr. M https://deepseanews.com/2012/04/a-lonely-tree-far-from-home-brings-new-life-to-the-ocean-deep-a-narrative-in-five-acts/#comment-8637 Tue, 01 May 2012 20:02:12 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=17231#comment-8637 In reply to Lab Lemming.

Hadn’t thought about that…would be interesting opportunity

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By: Lab Lemming https://deepseanews.com/2012/04/a-lonely-tree-far-from-home-brings-new-life-to-the-ocean-deep-a-narrative-in-five-acts/#comment-8636 Tue, 01 May 2012 05:55:25 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=17231#comment-8636 Presumably the 2011 Tohoku tsunami is going to put a ridiculous amount of wood on the deep sea floor…

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By: A Lonely Tree Far From Home Brings New Life to the Ocean Deep: A Narrative in Five Acts : Ecology State – The State of the Ecology Blog https://deepseanews.com/2012/04/a-lonely-tree-far-from-home-brings-new-life-to-the-ocean-deep-a-narrative-in-five-acts/#comment-8635 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:34:36 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=17231#comment-8635 […] Continue reading here: A Lonely Tree Far From Home Brings New Life to the Ocean Deep: A Narrative in Five Acts […]

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By: para_sight https://deepseanews.com/2012/04/a-lonely-tree-far-from-home-brings-new-life-to-the-ocean-deep-a-narrative-in-five-acts/#comment-8634 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:23:34 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=17231#comment-8634 Yeah that cliff hanger ending is killing me!

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By: Claudette https://deepseanews.com/2012/04/a-lonely-tree-far-from-home-brings-new-life-to-the-ocean-deep-a-narrative-in-five-acts/#comment-8633 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:12:52 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=17231#comment-8633 Fascinating knowledge.
Beautifully told.

And…a mysterious “stay-tuned” ending.

Thanks, Dr. M.!

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By: ChrisM https://deepseanews.com/2012/04/a-lonely-tree-far-from-home-brings-new-life-to-the-ocean-deep-a-narrative-in-five-acts/#comment-8632 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:51:23 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=17231#comment-8632 dont’ forget that there’s actually a sea urchin that live on wood as well!

http://echinoblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/sea-urchin-that-eats-wood.html

there are some rare ophiuroids and caymanostellids also..

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