Over one hundred governments are currently negotiating a new legally binding instrument
for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas beyond …

The increasing demand for metals is pushing forward the progress of deep‐sea mining
industry. The abyss between the Clarion and Clipperton Fracture Zones (CCFZ), a region …

Deep sea mining concerns the extraction of poly-metallic nodules, cobalt-rich crusts and
sulphide deposits from the ocean floor. The exploitation of these resources will result in …

Our understanding of the benthic communities on arctic seamounts and descriptions of such
communities in habitat classification systems are limited. In recent years, Schulz Bank (73° …

Abstract The Central and South Atlantic represents a vast ocean area and is home to a
diverse range of ecosystems and species. Nevertheless, and similar to the rest of the global …

Aim Seamounts are conspicuous geological features with an important ecological role and
can be considered vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs). Since many deep‐sea regions …

Deep‐water corals are protected in the seas around New Zealand by legislation that
prohibits intentional damage and removal, and by marine protected areas where bottom …

Little is known about dispersal in deep-sea ecosystems, especially for sponges, which are
abundant ecosystem engineers. Understanding patterns of gene flow in deep-sea sponges …

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 deep sea is the largest biome on Earth but the least explored. Our knowledge of it
comes from scattered sources spanning different spatial and temporal scales …