By: Oceanology Guangzhou, Jingchun Feng, Li Zhou, Minxiao Wang, Hao Chen, Jiacheng Wang, Yang Guo, Zhaoshan Zhong, Mengna Li, Ziyun Ye, Huan Zhang, Bioresources Qingdao, Oceanology Qingdao, Chaolun Li, Yujie Yan, Hao Wang, Yan Sun, Chaofeng Cai
Deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems, critical for global methane and sulphur cycling, require accurate connectivity data for effective conservation planning amid increasing anthropogenic threats. Because hosts and their environmentally acquired symbionts operate at fundamentally different spatial and temporal scales, we analysed each at the scale appropriate to its biology: host













