Figure 2
From: Spatial scales of bacterial community diversity at cold seeps (Eastern Mediterranean Sea)
Underwater photographs of reduced seep habitats investigated in this study: Upper panel (a, b, c) photographs were taken at the Amon MV and lower panel (d) photographs at the Amsterdam MV and (e, f) at a Pockmark seep. (a) Center of the Amon MV characterized by gassy sediments and patchy bacterial mats, (b, c) a lateral mud flow with extensive bacterial mats at the outer rim of the volcano. (d) Typical methane-seeping habitat marked by black sediment patches encountered at the Amsterdam MV. Overview (e) and a more detailed photo (f) of a bacterial mat habitat at the Pockmark cold seep.
