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Especially at petroleum seeps, this would guarantee a lifelong energy source and help explain the extraordinary longevity of the worms.
Individual aggregations at seeps can consist of hundreds to thousands of worms, requiring sulfide fluxes of half a mole per day—and this for more than 200 y [12].
Furthermore, how do tubeworms populate new vents, seeps, and other reducing environments emerging from the ever-changing ocean floor—how do their larvae migrate and settle, and what determines the distribution and lifetime of tubeworm populations in the different mid-ocean ridge and continental margin habitats?
However, at cold seeps, unlike hydrothermal vents, most of the chemical energy occurs in the form of hydrocarbons.
At seeps, geological processes causing fluid and gas seepage can last hundreds to millions of years, whereas hydrothermal vents often have a lifespan on the order of decades.
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