Major impacts of climate change on deep-sea benthic ecosystems

AK Sweetman, AR Thurber, CR Smith, LA Levin… - Elem Sci …, 2017 - online.ucpress.edu
The deep sea encompasses the largest ecosystems on Earth. Although poorly known, deep
seafloor ecosystems provide services that are vitally important to the entire ocean and …

Changing ocean, marine ecosystems, and dependent communities

NL Bindoff, WWL Cheung, JG Kairo, J Arístegui… - 2019 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

Towards ecosystem modeling in the deep sea: A review of past efforts and primer for the future

MS Woodstock, Y Zhang - Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ecosystem modeling is a popular technique to incorporate the direct and indirect
interactions of all ecosystem components within a simulation. However, these models are …

Abyssal plain faunal carbon flows remain depressed 26 years after a simulated deep-sea mining disturbance

T Stratmann, L Lins, A Purser, Y Marcon… - …, 2018 - bg.copernicus.org
Future deep-sea mining for polymetallic nodules in abyssal plains will negatively impact the
benthic ecosystem, but it is largely unclear whether this ecosystem will be able to recover …

Polymetallic nodules are essential for food-web integrity of a prospective deep-seabed mining area in Pacific abyssal plains

T Stratmann, K Soetaert, D Kersken, D van Oevelen - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Polymetallic nodule fields provide hard substrate for sessile organisms on the abyssal
seafloor between 3000 and 6000 m water depth. Deep-seabed mining targets these mineral …

[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 …

Key role of bacteria in the short‐term cycling of carbon at the abyssal seafloor in a low particulate organic carbon flux region of the eastern Pacific Ocean

AK Sweetman, CR Smith, CN Shulse… - Limnology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The cycling of carbon (C) by benthic organisms is a key ecosystem function in the deep sea.
Pulse‐chase experiments are designed to quantify this process, yet few studies have been …

Transects in the deep: opportunities with tele-operated resident seafloor robots

D Chatzievangelou, L Thomsen, C Doya… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Scientific, industrial and societal needs call urgently for the development and establishment
of intelligent, cost-effective and ecologically sustainable monitoring protocols and robotic …

The long-term changes in food web structure and ecosystem functioning of a shallow lake: Implications for the lake management

X Zhang, Y Yi, Z Yang - Journal of Environmental Management, 2022 - Elsevier
The food web structure (FWS) and ecosystem functioning (EF) of lakes worldwide are
impacted by multiple disturbances. The historical evolution of the FWS and EF are not well …

A multidisciplinary approach for generating globally consistent data on mesophotic, deep-pelagic, and bathyal biological communities

LC Woodall, DA Andradi-Brown, AS Brierley, MR Clark… - Oceanography, 2018 - JSTOR
Approaches to measuring marine biological parameters remain almost as diverse as the
researchers who measure them. However, understanding the patterns of diversity in ocean …