[HTML][HTML] Assessment of scientific gaps related to the effective environmental management of deep-seabed mining

DJ Amon, S Gollner, T Morato, CR Smith, C Chen… - Marine Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
A comprehensive understanding of the deep-sea environment and mining's likely impacts is
necessary to assess whether and under what conditions deep-seabed mining operations …

A review of the International Seabed Authority database DeepData from a biological perspective: challenges and opportunities in the UN Ocean Decade

M Rabone, T Horton, DOB Jones, E Simon-Lledó… - Database, 2023 - academic.oup.com
There is an urgent need for high-quality biodiversity data in the context of rapid
environmental change. Nowhere is this need more urgent than in the deep ocean, with the …

A review of megafauna diversity and abundance in an exploration area for polymetallic nodules in the eastern part of the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone (North East …

K Uhlenkott, K Meyn, A Vink, P Martínez Arbizu - Marine Biodiversity, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCZ) is an abyssal region in the north-east
Pacific that is currently being explored for metal-rich polymetallic nodules, but also harbors a …

[HTML][HTML] Environment, ecology, and potential effectiveness of an area protected from deep-sea mining (Clarion Clipperton Zone, abyssal Pacific)

DOB Jones, E Simon-Lledó, DJ Amon, BJ Bett… - Progress in …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Megafaunal variation in the abyssal landscape of the Clarion Clipperton Zone

E Simon-Lledó, BJ Bett, VAI Huvenne… - Progress in …, 2019 - Elsevier
The potential for imminent polymetallic nodule mining in the Clarion Clipperton Fracture
Zone (CCZ) has attracted considerable scientific and public attention. This concern stems …

Significant taxon sampling gaps in DNA databases limit the operational use of marine macrofauna metabarcoding

JT Hestetun, E Bye-Ingebrigtsen, RH Nilsson… - Marine Biodiversity, 2020 - Springer
Significant effort is spent on monitoring of benthic ecosystems through government funding
or indirectly as a cost of business, and metabarcoding of environmental DNA samples has …

Managing a sustainable deep-sea 'blue economy'requires knowledge of what actually lives there

AG Glover, H Wiklund, C Chen, TG Dahlgren - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Ensuring that the wealth of resources contained in our oceans are managed and developed
in a sustainable manner is a priority for the emerging'blue economy'. However, modern …

Ecology of a polymetallic nodule occurrence gradient: Implications for deep‐sea mining

E Simon‐Lledó, BJ Bett, VAI Huvenne… - Limnology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abyssal polymetallic nodule fields constitute an unusual deep‐sea habitat. The mix of soft
sediment and the hard substratum provided by nodules increases the complexity of these …

Eukaryotic biodiversity and spatial patterns in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone and other abyssal regions: Insights from sediment DNA and RNA metabarcoding

F Lejzerowicz, AJ Gooday… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The abyssal seafloor is a mosaic of highly diverse habitats that represent the least known
marine ecosystems on Earth. Some regions enriched in natural resources, such as …

Access to Marine Genetic Resources (MGR): raising awareness of best-practice through a new agreement for Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ)

M Rabone, H Harden-Davies, JE Collins… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Better scientific knowledge of the poorly-known deep sea and areas beyond national
jurisdiction (ABNJ) is key to its conservation, an urgent need in light of increasing …