Extending deep-sea benthic biodiversity inventories with environmental DNA metabarcoding

D Oosthuizen, M Seymour, LJ Atkinson… - Marine Biology, 2023 - Springer
Inventories of biodiversity are crucial for helping support conservation and management
efforts, yet the deep-sea, which is the largest biome on earth remains vastly understudied …

Gradients and instability: Macrozoobenthic communities in the Benguela Upwelling System off Namibia

K Amorim, ML Zettler - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2023 - Elsevier
This is the most comprehensive study to date on the distribution of macrofaunal
assemblages of the Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ) off Namibia, one of the least studied …

Patterns and potential drivers of mesophotic communities of the warm-temperate Amathole shelf of South Africa

LA Adams, N Karenyi, D Parker, K Sink - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf …, 2023 - Elsevier
Temperate mesophotic ecosystems are generally poorly understood and in South Africa, few
studies have analysed imagery from benthic assemblages in this depth range. This study …

Sedimentary evolution of lagoons along the Namibian coast reveals fluctuation in Holocene biogeographic faunal provinces, upwelling intensity and sea level

I Schüller, L Belz, H Wilkes, A Wehrmann - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Within the wave-dominated and high-energy depositional environment of the hyper-arid
Namibian coast, lagoons and related saltpans represent one of the few regional settings in …

Extending deep-sea benthic biodiversity inventories with environmental DNA metabarcodingExtending deep-sea benthic biodiversity inventories with environmental …

D Oosthuizen, M Seymour, L Atkinson… - 2022 - researchsquare.com
Inventories of biodiversity are crucial for helping support conservation efforts, yet the deep
sea, which is the largest biome on earth remains vastly understudied. Recent advances in …