Whale falls produce remarkable organic-and sulfide-rich habitat islands at the seafloor. The
past decade has seen a dramatic increase in studies of modern and fossil whale remains …

This review summarises the current knowledge on cryptic species of polychaetes, one of the
most dominant taxa in marine communities, and gives a brief overview of the different …

Background Although polychaetes are one of the dominant taxa in marine communities,
their distributions and taxonomic diversity are poorly understood. Recent studies have …

Large organic food falls to the deep sea–such as whale carcasses and wood logs–are
known to serve as step** stones for the dispersal of highly adapted chemosynthetic …

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has become a powerful tool in phylogenetic and
evolutionary studies. Here we applied NGS to recover two ribosomal RNA genes (18S and …

Sediments associated with hydrothermal venting, methane seepage and large organic falls
such as whale, wood and plant detritus create deep-sea networks of soft-sediment habitats …

The Antarctic marine environment is a diverse ecosystem currently experiencing some of the
fastest rates of climatic change. The documentation and management of these changes …

This new edition of Biological Oceanography has been greatly updated and expanded since
its initial publication in 2004. It presents current understanding of ocean ecology …

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 …

Annelid polychaetes have been seldom the focus of dedicated DNA barcoding studies,
despite their ecological relevance and often dominance, particularly in soft‐bottom estuarine …