Extreme marine environments cover more than 50% of the Earth's surface and offer many
opportunities for investigating the biological responses and adaptations of organisms to …

Extreme biomimetics is the search for natural sources of engineering inspiration that lead to
solutions that are well outside the human comfort zone (temperature, pH, salinity, pressure …

The World Register of Marine Species is an over 90% complete open-access inventory of all
marine species names. Here we illustrate the scale of the problems with species names …

Correct identification of species is required to assess and understand the biodiversity of an
ecosystem. In the deep sea, however, this is only possible to a limited extent, as a large part …

Motivation Traits are increasingly being used to quantify global biodiversity patterns, with
trait databases growing in size and number, across diverse taxa. Despite growing interest in …

The ChEss project of the Census of Marine Life (2002–2010) helped foster internationally-
coordinated studies worldwide focusing on exploration for, and characterization of new deep …

Deep-sea hydrothermal vent fields are globally rare (abundant in numbers, but extremely
small in area) and are rich in extraordinary life based on chemosynthesis rather than …

Background We studied the meiofauna community at deep-sea hydrothermal vents along a
gradient of vent fluid emissions in the axial summit trought (AST) of the East Pacific Rise 9° …

Hydrothermal vents are extreme environments, where abundant communities of copepods
with contrasting life history traits co-exist along hydrothermal gradients. Here, we discuss …

Deep-sea hydrothermal vents and the surrounding basalt seafloor are subject to major
natural disturbance events such as volcanic eruptions. In the near future, anthropogenic …