Coral reefs are found in a wide range of environments, where they provide food and habitat
to a large range of organisms as well as providing many other ecological goods and …

The deep sea (> 200 m depth) encompasses> 95% of the world's ocean volume and
represents the largest and least explored biome on Earth (< 0.0001% of ocean surface), yet …

Thousands of offshore oil and gas structures are approaching the end of their operating life
globally, yet our understanding of the environmental effects of different decommissioning …

Cold-water coral reefs and adjacent sponge grounds are distributed widely in the deep
ocean, where only a small fraction of the surface productivity reaches the seafloor as …

Invertebrates inhabiting marine and freshwater ecosystems make important contributions to
global biodiversity and provide significant services that have cascading effects across …

Species delimitations is problematic in many cases due to the difficulty of evaluating
predictions from species hypotheses. In many cases delimitations rely on subjective …

The deep sea is amongst the most food‐limited habitats on Earth, as only a small fraction (<
4%) of the surface primary production is exported below 200 m water depth. Here, cold …

The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the
workings of the physical environment and with the political, economic and social frameworks …

Cold-water corals are important bioengineers that provide structural habitat for a diverse
species community. About 70% of the presently known scleractinian cold-water corals are …

Over half of all scleractinian coral species inhabit ocean depths greater than 50 m, some of
which are capable of constructing reefs tens of kilometers long and hundreds of meters high …