The impacts of deep-sea fisheries on benthic communities: a review

MR Clark, F Althaus, TA Schlacher… - ICES Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Deep-sea fisheries operate globally throughout the world's oceans, chiefly targeting stocks
on the upper and mid-continental slope and offshore seamounts. Major commercial fisheries …

The ecology of seamounts: structure, function, and human impacts

MR Clark, AA Rowden, T Schlacher… - Annual Review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
In this review of seamount ecology, we address a number of key scientific issues concerning
the structure and function of benthic communities, human impacts, and seamount …

Impacts of bottom trawling on deep-coral ecosystems of seamounts are long-lasting

F Althaus, A Williams, TA Schlacher, RJ Kloser… - Marine Ecology …, 2009 - int-res.com
Complex biogenic habitats formed by corals are important components of the megabenthos
of seamounts, but their fragility makes them susceptible to damage by bottom trawling. Here …

[图书][B] Cold-water coral reefs: out of sight-no longer out of mind

A Freiwald, JH Fossâ, A Grehan, T Koslow, JM Roberts - 2004 - oceanrep.geomar.de
THE UNEP WoRLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE 15 the b1od1vers1ty
assessment and pol, cy 1mplementat1on arm of the Un, ted Nations Environment …

Are aggregation-fisheries sustainable? Reef fish fisheries as a case study

Y Sadovy, M Domeier - Coral reefs, 2005 - Springer
Reef fish spawning aggregations are attractive and often lucrative to fish but particularly
vulnerable to fishing, with many cases of declines or extirpations. While awareness of the …

Predicting global habitat suitability for stony corals on seamounts

DP Tittensor, AR Baco, PE Brewin… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Globally, species distribution patterns in the deep sea are poorly resolved, with spatial
coverage being sparse for most taxa and true absence data missing. Increasing human …

Seamount megabenthic assemblages fail to recover from trawling impacts

A Williams, TA Schlacher, AA Rowden… - Marine …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Because the nature, tempo and trajectories of biological changes that follow the cessation of
trawling are unknown for seamounts, it is unclear whether closing them to trawling will lead …

Biology of deep-water octocorals

L Watling, SC France, E Pante, A Simpson - Advances in marine biology, 2011 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography,
ecology, and reproductive biology of deep-sea octocorals and also focuses on gorgonian …

[HTML][HTML] Little evidence of benthic community resilience to bottom trawling on seamounts after 15 years

MR Clark, DA Bowden, AA Rowden… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The resilience and recovery dynamics of deep-sea habitats impacted by bottom trawling are
poorly known. This paper reports on a fishing impact recovery comparison based on four …

Paradigms in seamount ecology: fact, fiction and future

AA Rowden, JF Dower, TA Schlacher… - Marine …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Despite a relatively short history, the field of seamount ecology is rife with ecological
paradigms, many of which have already become cemented in the scientific literature and in …