Our study highlights how substrate consistency, oxygenation, and organic matter dynamics influence the transition from deposit-feeding to microbe-dependent colonization strategies. It contributes to better understanding of habitat modifying biotic-abiotic processes and ecosystem functioning in the Hadal zone.
New Paper on bioturbation in a hadal trench
For the first time, we report trace fossils in a hadal trench and document biogenic colonization successions within gravity flow deposits in IODP cores from the Japan Trench,