The diversity of life in the sea is critical to the health of ocean ecosystems that support living
resources and therefore essential to the economic, nutritional, recreational, and health …

Neurodegenerative diseases are growing to become one of humanity's biggest health
problems, given the number of individuals affected by them. They cause enough mortalities …

Microplastic (MP) pollution affects almost all ecosystems on Earth. Given the increasing
plastic production worldwide and the durability of these polymers, concerns arise about the …

How far are species distributed on the abyssal plains? Spanning from 3000 to 6000 m below
sea level, abyssal plains cover three-quarters of the ocean floor and are the largest but also …

The largest habitat on Earth, the abyssal oceans below 3500 m depth, is commonly
assumed to represent a continuous environment due to homogeneity of environmental …

Many countries are very active in marine research and operate their own research fleets. In
this decade, a number of research vessels have been renewed and equipped with the most …

The German-Russian deep-sea expedition KuramBio (Kurile Kamchatka biodiversity studies)
on board of the RV Sonne in 2012 following the footsteps of the legendary expeditions with …

During the KuramBio expedition in 2012, macrobenthos samples were collected with an
epibenthic sledge from 12 sites on the abyssal plain of the Northwest Pacific Basin adjacent …

The northwestern Pacific Ocean is one of the hotspots of species richness and one of the
high endemicity areas of the World Ocean. However, large-scale biodiversity patterns of …

The Kuril Basin and the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench are two interconnected deep-sea
ecosystems both located in one of the most highly productive regions of the world's oceans …