The fundamental links between climate change and marine plastic pollution

HV Ford, NH Jones, AJ Davies, BJ Godley… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Plastic pollution and climate change have commonly been treated as two separate issues
and sometimes are even seen as competing. Here we present an alternative view that these …

Protist diversity and function in the dark ocean–Challenging the paradigms of deep-sea ecology with special emphasis on foraminiferans and naked protists

AJ Gooday, A Schoenle, JR Dolan, H Arndt - European journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The dark ocean and the underlying deep seafloor together represent the largest
environment on this planet, comprising about 80% of the oceanic volume and covering more …

Antarctic bottom water and North Atlantic deep water in CMIP6 models

C Heuzé - Ocean Science Discussions, 2020 - os.copernicus.org
Deep water formation is the driver of the global ocean circulation, yet it was poorly
represented in the previous generation of climate models. We here quantify biases in …

[HTML][HTML] The deep-sea under global change

R Danovaro, C Corinaldesi, A Dell'Anno… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
The deep ocean encompasses 95% of the oceans' volume and is the largest and least
explored biome of Earth's Biosphere. New life forms are continuously being discovered. The …

Worldwide measurements of bioturbation intensity, ventilation rate, and the mixing depth of marine sediments

M Solan, ER Ward, EL White, EE Hibberd, C Cassidy… - Scientific data, 2019 - nature.com
The activities of a diverse array of sediment-dwelling fauna are known to mediate carbon
remineralisation, biogeochemical cycling and other important properties of marine …

[HTML][HTML] Options for managing human threats to high seas biodiversity

BC O'Leary, G Hoppit, A Townley, HL Allen… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2020 - Elsevier
Areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) constitute 61% of the world's oceans and are
collectively managed by countries under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the …

Deep-sea mining on the Rio Grande Rise (Southwestern Atlantic): A review on environmental baseline, ecosystem services and potential impacts

F Montserrat, M Guilhon, PVF Corrêa, NM Bergo… - Deep Sea Research …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Rio Grande Rise is an extensive seamount region in the South-western
Atlantic, with potential for deep-sea mining activities in the future. Such activities pose …

[HTML][HTML] Ecological connectivity across ocean depths: Implications for protected area design

BC O'Leary, CM Roberts - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2018 - Elsevier
Coastal nations have embarked on a rapid program of marine protected area (MPA)
establishment, incentivised by the approaching 2020 deadline of United Nations global …

[HTML][HTML] Abyssal food-web model indicates faunal carbon flow recovery and impaired microbial loop 26 years after a sediment disturbance experiment

DSW De Jonge, T Stratmann, L Lins… - Progress in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to the predicted future demand for critical metals, abyssal plains covered with
polymetallic nodules are currently being prospected for deep-seabed mining. Deep-seabed …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the environmental status of selected North Atlantic deep-sea ecosystems

G Kazanidis, C Orejas, A Borja, E Kenchington… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
The deep sea is the largest biome on Earth but the least explored. Our knowledge of it
comes from scattered sources spanning different spatial and temporal scales …