Bycatch–a term widely used to refer to part of the catch unintentionally caught during a
fishing operation, in addition to target species, and consisting of the discards and incidental …

The Irish–Scottish margin is geologically and oceanographically heterogeneous. Source
waters of subpolar and subtropical origin interact with banks, seamounts, submarine canyon …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) sequencing has emerged as a valuable tool for biodiversity
surveys, allowing identification of taxa that may be missed by more traditional methods …

The continental shelf and submarine canyon off Cap de Creus (NW Mediterranean) were
declared a Site of Community Importance (SCI) within the Natura 2000 Network in 2014 …

Deep-sea ecosystems provide services such as food, minerals, and nutrient recycling, yet
baseline data on their structure is often lacking. Our limited knowledge of vulnerable deep …

Aggregations of sea pens are important soft-bottom communities providing a three-
dimensional complexity from which several associated species can benefit. The red sea pen …

Within the Mediterranean basin there are 82 species of deep-sea corals belonging to six
orders of the phylum Cnidaria (Antipatharia, Scleractinia, Zoantharia, Alcyonacea …

Sea pen communities are United Nations General Assembly-designated Vulnerable Marine
Ecosystems which occur worldwide in soft-bottom sediments where trawling often occurs …

Abstract Pennatulaceans (Octocorallia: Pennatulacea) are among the most dominant
octocoral species living in soft bottom communities. Some of them are cosmopolitan and …

Abstract Sea pens (Octocorallia, Pennatulacea) are a specialized and morphologically
distinct group of octocorals. The majority of them have adapted to survive on soft sediments …