With increasing demand for mineral resources, extraction of polymetallic sulphides at
hydrothermal vents, cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts at seamounts, and polymetallic …

Extreme marine environments cover more than 50% of the Earth's surface and offer many
opportunities for investigating the biological responses and adaptations of organisms to …

Describing biological diversity is a challenging endeavour, especially for the small, cryptic
animals that make up the meiofauna. The field of DNA taxonomy, ie, the use of DNA to …

Background Biogeographical and macroecological principles are derived from patterns of
distribution in large organisms, whereas microscopic ones have often been considered …

Motivation Traits are increasingly being used to quantify global biodiversity patterns, with
trait databases growing in size and number, across diverse taxa. Despite growing interest in …

Large symbiont-hosting snails of the genus Alviniconcha (Gastropoda: Abyssochrysidae)
are among the dominant inhabitants of hydrothermal vents in the Western Pacific and Indian …

Abstract The North Sea is one of the most extensively studied marine regions of the world.
Hence, large amounts of molecular data for species identification are available in public …

However derived, predictions of global marine species diversity rely on existing real data. All
methods, whether based on past rates of species descriptions, on expert opinion, on the …

Since its description from the Galapagos Rift in the mid-1980s, Archinome rosacea has been
recorded at hydrothermal vents in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Only recently was …

Deep-sea hydrothermal vents and the surrounding basalt seafloor are subject to major
natural disturbance events such as volcanic eruptions. In the near future, anthropogenic …