Dataset: Species counts on wood, rock and biotic colonization substrates from R/V Atlantis AT15-59 in the Pacific Ocean on the Costa Rica margin from 2010-2010 (Seep Carbonate Ecology CROCKS II project)

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Case, D. H., Pasulka, A.L., Marlow J.J., Grupe, B. , Levin, L.A., Orphan, V.J. Methane seep carbonates host distinct, diverse, and dynamic microbial assemblages.  Environmental Microbiology and Environmental Microbiology Reports. e01348-15 (2015).

Levin, L.A., Mendoza, G. Grupe B., Gonzalez, J. Jellison, B. Rouse, G. Thurber A. Waren A. Biodiversity on the rocks: macrofauna inhabiting authigenic carbonate at Costa Rica methane seeps. PLOS ONE 10(7): e0131080. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131080  (2015) 

Levin, L.A., G.F. Mendoza and B.M. Grupe, Methane seepage effects on biodiversity and biological traits of macrofauna inhabiting authigenic carbonates. Deep-sea Res. II (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.05.021 (2016)

Marlow, J.J., Steele, J.A., Ziebis, W., Thurger A.R., Levin, L.A. and Orphan, V.J. Carbonate hosted methanotrophy: an unrecognized methane sink in the deep sea. Nature Communications 5:  5094 (2014) DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6094

Marlow, J.J., Steele, J.A., Case, D.H. Connon, S.A., Levin, L.A. and V.J. Orphan. Microbial abundance and diversity patterns associated with sediments and carbonates from the methane seep environments of Hydrate Ridge, OR. Frontiers in Marine Science, Aquatic Microbiology. Vol. 1 Article 44 doi: 10.3389/fmars.2014.00044  (2014)