Is the meiofauna a good indicator for climate change and anthropogenic impacts?

D Zeppilli, J Sarrazin, D Leduc, PM Arbizu… - Marine Biodiversity, 2015‏ - Springer
Our planet is changing, and one of the most pressing challenges facing the scientific
community revolves around understanding how ecological communities respond to global …

Characteristics of meiofauna in extreme marine ecosystems: a review

D Zeppilli, D Leduc, C Fontanier, D Fontaneto… - Marine Biodiversity, 2018‏ - Springer
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 …

Ecology of free-living marine nematodes

T Moens, U Braeckman, S Derycke… - Handbook of zoology …, 2013‏ - degruyter.com
To the public at large, the phylum Nematoda is mostly known by its pathogenic species,
causing some of the most infectious diseases in humans and animals and more crop losses …

Spatial scale-dependent habitat heterogeneity influences submarine canyon macrofaunal abundance and diversity off the Main and Northwest Hawaiian Islands

FC De Leo, EW Vetter, CR Smith, AA Rowden… - Deep Sea Research …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The map** of biodiversity on continental margins on landscape scales is highly relevant to
marine spatial planning and conservation. Submarine canyons are widespread topographic …

Integrated study of Mediterranean deep canyons: Novel results and future challenges

M Canals, JB Company, D Martín… - Progress in …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
This volume compiles a number of scientific papers resulting from a sustained
multidisciplinary research effort of the deep-sea ecosystem in the Mediterranean Sea. This …

The Whittard Canyon–A case study of submarine canyon processes

T Amaro, VAI Huvenne, AL Allcock, T Aslam… - Progress in …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Submarine canyons are large geomorphological features that incise continental shelves and
slopes around the world. They are often suggested to be biodiversity and biomass hotspots …

Review of recent trends in ecological studies of deep-sea meiofauna, with focus on patterns and processes at small to regional spatial scales

N Rosli, D Leduc, AA Rowden, PK Probert - Marine Biodiversity, 2018‏ - Springer
Meiofauna are an important component of deep-sea benthic communities because they are
highly abundant and play an important role in the sediment. This review describes trends in …

Unusually high food availability in Kaikoura Canyon linked to distinct deep-sea nematode community

D Leduc, AA Rowden, SD Nodder… - Deep Sea Research …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Kaikoura Canyon, on the eastern New Zealand continental margin, is the most productive,
non-chemosynthetic deep-sea habitat described to date, with megafaunal biomass 100-fold …

Organic matter enrichment in the Whittard Channel; its origin and possible effects on benthic megafauna

T Amaro, H de Stigter, M Lavaleye… - Deep Sea Research Part I …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Whittard Canyon (NE Atlantic) is one of the largest canyon systems on the
northern Bay of Biscay margin. It likely receives a high input of organic matter from the …

Reproductive biology of the two main reef-building cold-water coral species (Desmophyllum pertusum and Madrepora oculata) in the Mediterranean Sea

M Chemel, AL Meistertzheim, V Mouchi… - Deep Sea Research Part I …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Although cold-water coral (CWC) biology, physiology, and connectivity, have been
extensively studied, few studies have so far focused on their reproductive biology. The …