The seabed plays a key role in the marine carbon cycle as a) the terminal location of aerobic
oxidation of organic matter, b) the greatest anaerobic bioreactor, and c) the greatest …

Benthic O2 availability regulates many important biogeochemical processes and has crucial
implications for the biology and ecology of benthic communities. Further, the benthic O2 …

A census of the biomass on Earth is key for understanding the structure and dynamics of the
biosphere. However, a global, quantitative view of how the biomass of different taxa …

Our planet is changing, and one of the most pressing challenges facing the scientific
community revolves around understanding how ecological communities respond to global …

A comprehensive seafloor biomass and abundance database has been constructed from 24
oceanographic institutions worldwide within the Census of Marine Life (CoML) field projects …

We present the first global-scale analysis of standing stock (abundance and biomass) for 4
major size classes of deep-sea biota: bacteria, metazoan meiofauna, macrofauna and …

The relation between organic matter deposition fluxes and benthic community structure is
discussed in the framework of the classical Pearson-Rosenberg paradigm. The importance …

We present a quantitative food‐web analysis of the cold‐water coral community, ie, the
assembly of living corals, dead coral branches and sediment beneath, associated with the …

Mutual interaction of water column and sediment processes is either neglected or only
crudely approximated in many biogeochemical models. We have reviewed the approaches …

We studied the composition and variation of nematode body size as a function of nematode
depth in the sediment and water depth at 18 stations, ranging from 137 to 4951 m depth …