Deep-sea fisheries operate globally throughout the world's oceans, chiefly targeting stocks
on the upper and mid-continental slope and offshore seamounts. Major commercial fisheries …

This review covers selected 2014 articles on the biological effects of pollutants and human
physical disturbances on marine and estuarine plants, animals, ecosystems and habitats …

Macroinvertebrate community structure parameters can reflect the water quality and water
ecosystem health status of rivers. In this paper, using the results of macroinvertebrates in 16 …

Beam trawling causes physical disruption of the seabed through contact of the gear
components with the sediment and the resuspension of sediment into the water column in …

The poor access to data on the marine environment is a handicap to government decision-
making, a barrier to scientific understanding and an obstacle to economic growth. In this …

Impact studies of chronic bottom trawling aiming to reveal long-term effects on benthic
organisms are often hampered by the lack of comparable untrawled conditions and the …

Deep-water seamount ecosystems are sensitive to human activities and have a slow
recovery rate after being disturbed. Bottom trawling and potential deep-sea mineral …

The aims of this study are to develop an optimized method for regional benthic fauna
assessment of the Southern North Sea which (a) is sensitive and precise (quantified as the …

Geodiversity describes the heterogeneity of the physical terrain. We have performed basin-
wide geodiversity analysis on a glaciated epicontinental seabed to assess geodiversity …

Abstract Before the 2020 COVID‐19 pandemic, cruise ship tourism had been one of the
fastest growing segments of global tourism, presenting a range of potential impacts. At …