Marine biodiversity in the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America: knowledge and gaps

P Miloslavich, E Klein, JM Díaz, CE Hernández… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The marine areas of South America (SA) include almost 30,000 km of coastline and
encompass three different oceanic domains—the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Atlantic …

Understanding continental margin biodiversity: a new imperative

LA Levin, M Sibuet - Annual review of marine science, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Until recently, the deep continental margins (200–4,000 m) were perceived as monotonous
mud slopes of limited ecological or environmental concern. Progress in seafloor map** …

Fish ecology and evolution in the world's oxygen minimum zones and implications of ocean deoxygenation

ND Gallo, LA Levin - Advances in marine biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) and oxygen limited zones (OLZs) are important
oceanographic features in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean, and are characterized by …

Habitat heterogeneity and its influence on benthic biodiversity in oxygen minimum zones

AJ Gooday, BJ Bett, E Escobar, B Ingole… - Marine …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Oxygen minimum zones (OMZs; midwater regions with O2 concentrations< 0.5 ml l− 1) are
mid‐water features that intercept continental margins at bathyal depths (100–1000 m). They …

[HTML][HTML] Paleoceanographic insights on recent oxygen minimum zone expansion: lessons for modern oceanography

SE Moffitt, RA Moffitt, W Sauthoff, CV Davis, K Hewett… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Climate-driven Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ) expansions in the geologic record provide an
opportunity to characterize the spatial and temporal scales of OMZ change. Here we …

Ubiquitous but unique: Water depth and oceanographic attributes shape methane seep communities

S Seabrook, ME Torres, T Baumberger… - Limnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the past decade, thousands of previously unknown methane seeps have been identified
on continental margins around the world. As we have come to appreciate methane seep …

Factors influencing the distribution of epibenthic megafauna across the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone

T Mosch, S Sommer, M Dengler, A Noffke… - Deep Sea Research …, 2012 - Elsevier
Current de-oxygenation of the oceans is associated with severe habitat loss and distinct
changes in the species composition of bentho-pelagic communities. We investigated the …

New perceptions of continental margin biodiversity

L Menot, M Sibuet, RS Carney, LA Levin… - Life in the World's …, 2010 - books.google.com
The Census of Marine Life has promoted synergetic approaches to assess and explain the
diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the ocean, focusing on domains where new …

Diversity of bathyal macrofauna on the northeastern Pacific margin: the influence of methane seeps and oxygen minimum zones

LA Levin, GF Mendoza, JP Gonzalez… - Marine …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The upper continental slope in the northeastern Pacific Ocean is intercepted by a deep
oxygen minimum zone (OMZ; 650–1100 m) and punctuated by conduits of methane …

Jellyfish life stages shape associated microbial communities, while a core microbiome is maintained across all

MD Lee, JD Kling, R Araya, J Ceh - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The key to 650 million years of evolutionary success in jellyfish is adaptability: with
alternating benthic and pelagic generations, sexual and asexual reproductive modes …