To protect the range of habitats, species, and ecosystem functions in the Clarion Clipperton
Zone (CCZ), a region of interest for deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining in the Pacific, nine …

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 …

In the 1950s, the Danish Galathea Expedition undertook one of the first and most
comprehensive explorations of our ocean's hadal zone, depths extending from 6,000 to …

The initial, anthropocentric view of the deep ocean was that of a hostile environment
inhabited by organisms rendered lethargic by constant high pressure, low temperature and …

Abstract The South Sandwich Trench is a 965 km long arcuate subduction trench spanning
the South Atlantic and Southern oceans, isolated from most other hadal (areas where water …

Amphipods of the superfamily Lysianassoidea are ubiquitous at hadal depths (> 6000 m)
and therefore are an ideal model group for investigating levels of endemism and the drivers …

This work reports on a preliminary taxonomic study of epibenthic macroinvertebrates
collected or observed by underwater video at the Haima cold seeps and in adjacent deep …

Abstract The Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), located in the abyssal equatorial Pacific, has
been subject to intensive international exploration for polymetallic nodule mining over the …

Background There is growing interest in mining polymetallic nodules from the abyssal
Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Despite having been the focus …

Our understanding of the ecology of the hadal zone (> 6000 m depth) is based solely on
subduction trenches, leaving other geomorphological features, such as fracture zones …