How many metazoan species live in the world's largest mineral exploration region?

M Rabone, JH Wiethase, E Simon-Lledó, AM Emery… - Current biology, 2023 - cell.com
The global surge in demand for metals such as cobalt and nickel has created
unprecedented interest in deep-sea habitats with mineral resources. The largest area of …

Challenges and advances in the taxonomy of deep-sea Peracarida: From traditional to modern methods

I Frutos, S Kaiser, Ł Pułaski, M Studzian… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As one of the oldest branches of biology, taxonomy deals with the identification,
classification and naming of living organisms, using a variety of tools to explore traits at the …

[图书][B] Biogeographic atlas of the Southern Ocean

C De Broyer, P Koubbi, H Griffiths, SA Grant - 2014 - core.ac.uk
The isolation of the Southern Ocean after the opening of Drake Passage some 23–25 million
years ago, the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the subsequent cooling of the …

[PDF][PDF] New species of Eurythenes from hadal depths of the Mariana Trench, Pacific Ocean (Crustacea: Amphipoda)

JNJ Weston, P Carrillo-Barragan, TD Linley, WDK Reid… - Zootaxa, 2020 - wwf.fr
Abstract Eurythenes SI Smith in Scudder, 1882 are one of the largest scavenging deep-sea
amphipods (max. 154 mm) and are found in every ocean across an extensive bathymetric …

Genetic and Morphological Divergences in the Cosmopolitan Deep-Sea Amphipod Eurythenes gryllus Reveal a Diverse Abyss and a Bipolar Species

C Havermans, G Sonet, C d'Udekem d'Acoz, ZT Nagy… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Eurythenes gryllus is one of the most widespread amphipod species, occurring in every
ocean with a depth range covering the bathyal, abyssal and hadal zones. Previous studies …

Alpha and beta diversity patterns of polychaete assemblages across the nodule province of the eastern Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (equatorial Pacific)

P Bonifácio, P Martínez Arbizu, L Menot - Biogeosciences, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
In the abyssal equatorial Pacific Ocean, most of the seafloor of the Clarion-Clipperton
Fracture Zone (CCFZ), a 6 million km 2 polymetallic nodule province, has been preempted …

Barriers to gene flow in the deepest ocean ecosystems: Evidence from global population genomics of a cosmopolitan amphipod

JNJ Weston, EL Jensen, MSR Hasoon, JJN Kitson… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The deepest marine ecosystem, the hadal zone, hosts endemic biodiversity resulting from
geographic isolation and environmental selection pressures. However, the pan-ocean …

Community structure and diversity of scavenging amphipods from bathyal to hadal depths in three South Pacific Trenches

NC Lacey, AA Rowden, MR Clark, NM Kilgallen… - Deep Sea Research …, 2016 - Elsevier
There are few biological datasets that span large bathymetric ranges with sufficient
resolution to identify trends across the abyssal and hadal transition zone, particularly over …

[HTML][HTML] Adult life strategy affects distribution patterns in abyssal isopods–implications for conservation in Pacific nodule areas

S Brix, KJ Osborn, S Kaiser, SB Truskey… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
With increasing pressure to extract minerals from the deep-sea bed, understanding the
ecological and evolutionary processes that limit the spatial distribution of species is critical to …

Recent speciation and hybridization in Icelandic deep‐sea isopods: An integrative approach using genomics and proteomics

E Paulus, S Brix, A Siebert, P Martinez Arbizu… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The crustacean marine isopod species Haploniscus bicuspis (Sars, 1877) shows circum‐
Icelandic distribution in a wide range of environmental conditions and along well‐known …