The industrialization of the deep sea is expanding worldwide. Increasing oil and gas
exploration activities in the absence of sufficient baseline data in deep-sea ecosystems has …

Operational discharges of produced water and drill cuttings from offshore oil and gas
platforms are a continuous source of contaminants to continental shelf ecosystems. This …

In the early 1980s, a strategy for graphical representation of multivariate (multi‐species)
abundance data was introduced into marine ecology by, among others, Field, et al.(1982). A …

Hypothesis‐testing methods for multivariate data are needed to make rigorous probability
statements about the effects of factors and their interactions in experiments. Analysis of …

ANOSIM, PERMANOVA, and the Mantel test are all resemblance‐based permutation
methods widely used in ecology. Here, we report the results of the first simulation study, to …

The method of choice for multivariate representation of community structure is often non-
metric multi-dimensional scaling (MDS). This has great flexibility in accomn~ odating …

Meiobenthology is the science of the tiny animals that live in huge numbers in all aquatic
sediments. This fully revised and enlarged second edition emphasizes new discoveries and …

Bray–Curtis similarity is widely employed in multivariate analysis of assemblage data, for
sound biological reasons. This paper discusses two problems, however, with its practical …

Tests for null hypotheses of'absence of structure'should play an important role in any
exploratory study, to guard against interpretation of sample patterns that could have been …

Eutrophication is one of the most severe and widespread forms of disturbance affecting
coastal marine systems. Whilst there are general models of effects on benthos, such as the …