Circulation patterns in the North Atlantic Ocean have changed and re-organized multiple
times over millions of years, influencing the biodiversity, distribution, and connectivity …

The demand and high market price for sea cucumber has led to the collapse of wild stocks
for many traditional species in Asia and the Indo-Pacific. New species have therefore been …

Deep-sea sponge grounds are important habitats that provide several ecosystem services,
yet relatively little is known about their distribution and ecology. While most surveys have …

Silicon (Si) is a pivotal element in the biogeochemical and ecological functioning of the
ocean. The marine Si cycle is thought to be in internal equilibrium, but the recent discovery …

Abstract The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) Roadmap is the general
framework aimed toward implementing an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) in NAFO …

Deep-sea sponge grounds are vulnerable marine ecosystems, which through their benthic-
pelagic coupling of nutrients, are of functional relevance to the deep-sea realm. The impact …

Mass occurrences of large sponges, or 'sponge grounds', are found globally in a range of
oceanographic settings. Interest in these grounds is growing because of their ecological …

The deep sea is the largest biome on Earth but the least explored. Our knowledge of it
comes from scattered sources spanning different spatial and temporal scales …

Indicators are key tools used to assess the ecological status of the environment for
ecosystem based management. Anthropogenic disturbances produce changes to habitat …

Over the course of the past decade, in response to United Nations General Assembly
resolutions calling for the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs), the Northwest …