Marine biodiversity, biogeography, deep-sea gradients, and conservation

MJ Costello, C Chaudhary - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
The oceans appear ideal for biodiversity—they have unlimited water, a large area, are well
connected, have less extreme temperatures than on land, and contain more phyla and …

[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 …

Toward a conceptual understanding of β-diversity in the deep-sea benthos

CR McClain, MA Rex - Annual review of ecology, evolution, and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
We review patterns and causes of β-diversity in the deep-sea benthos at different spatial
scales and for different body sizes. Changes in species composition occurring with depth …

Metagenetic community analysis of microbial eukaryotes illuminates biogeographic patterns in deep‐sea and shallow water sediments

HM Bik, WAY Sung, P De Ley, JG Baldwin… - Molecular …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial eukaryotes (nematodes, protists, fungi, etc., loosely referred to as meiofauna) are
ubiquitous in marine sediments and probably play pivotal roles in maintaining ecosystem …

Bathymetric zonation of deep-sea macrofauna in relation to export of surface phytoplankton production

CL Wei, GT Rowe, GF Hubbard, AH Scheltema… - Marine Ecology …, 2010 - int-res.com
Macrobenthos of the deep, northern Gulf of Mexico (GoM) was sampled with box cores (0.2
m 2) along multiple cross-depth transects extending from depths of 200 m to the maximum …

A hierarchical classification of benthic biodiversity and assessment of protected areas in the Southern Ocean

LL Douglass, J Turner, HS Grantham, S Kaiser… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
An international effort is underway to establish a representative system of marine protected
areas (MPAs) in the Southern Ocean to help provide for the long-term conservation of …

Depth zonation and bathymetric trends of deep-sea megafaunal scavengers of the Hawaiian Islands

J Yeh, JC Drazen - Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research …, 2009 - Elsevier
The deep sea has been shown to exhibit strong depth zonation in species composition and
abundance. Examination of these patterns can offer ecological insight into how organisms …

Environmental filtering and biotic interactions act on different facets of the diversity of benthic assemblages associated with eelgrass

A Muller, SF Dubois, A Boyé, R Becheler… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Eelgrass supports diverse benthic communities that ensure a variety of ecosystem functions.
To better understand the ecological processes that shape community composition in …

Bathymetric distribution patterns of Southern Ocean macrofaunal taxa: bivalvia, Gastropoda, Isopoda and Polychaeta

A Brandt, K Linse, M Schüller - Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic …, 2009 - Elsevier
The aim of this study is to compare the depth distributions of four major Southern Ocean
macrobenthic epi-and infaunal taxa, the Bivalvia, Gastropoda, Isopoda, and Polychaeta …

Set-up of the nordic and barents seas (noba) atlantis model

C Hansen, M Skern-Mauritzen, G van der Meeren… - 2016 - imr.brage.unit.no
End-to-end models are important tools when moving towards an ecosystem based approach
to fisheries management. Atlantis is one such end-to-end model. Atlantis has been …