[HTML][HTML] Biodiversity hotspots: A shortcut for a more complicated concept

C Marchese - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2015‏ - Elsevier
In an era of human activities, global environmental changes, habitat loss and species
extinction, conservation strategies are a crucial step toward minimizing biodiversity loss. For …

The impacts of deep-sea fisheries on benthic communities: a review

MR Clark, F Althaus, TA Schlacher… - ICES Journal of …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
Deep-sea fisheries operate globally throughout the world's oceans, chiefly targeting stocks
on the upper and mid-continental slope and offshore seamounts. Major commercial fisheries …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of scientific gaps related to the effective environmental management of deep-seabed mining

DJ Amon, S Gollner, T Morato, CR Smith, C Chen… - Marine Policy, 2022‏ - Elsevier
A comprehensive understanding of the deep-sea environment and mining's likely impacts is
necessary to assess whether and under what conditions deep-seabed mining operations …

Diversity and potential host-interactions of viruses inhabiting deep-sea seamount sediments

M Yu, M Zhang, R Zeng, R Cheng, R Zhang… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Seamounts are globally distributed across the oceans and form one of the major oceanic
biomes. Here, we utilized combined analyses of bulk metagenome and virome to study viral …

Resilience of benthic deep-sea fauna to mining activities

S Gollner, S Kaiser, L Menzel, DOB Jones… - Marine Environmental …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
With increasing demand for mineral resources, extraction of polymetallic sulphides at
hydrothermal vents, cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts at seamounts, and polymetallic …

Defining “serious harm” to the marine environment in the context of deep-seabed mining

LA Levin, K Mengerink, KM Gjerde, AA Rowden… - Marine Policy, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Increasing interest in deep-seabed mining has raised many questions surrounding its
potential environmental impacts and how to assess the impacts' significance. Under the …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of seabed mining including the current state of development, environmental impacts, and knowledge gaps

KA Miller, KF Thompson, P Johnston… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Rising demand for minerals and metals, including for use in the technology sector, has led to
a resurgence of interest in exploration of mineral resources located on the seabed. Such …

Ecosystem function and services provided by the deep sea

AR Thurber, AK Sweetman, BE Narayanaswamy… - …, 2014‏ - bg.copernicus.org
The deep sea is often viewed as a vast, dark, remote, and inhospitable environment, yet the
deep ocean and seafloor are crucial to our lives through the services that they provide. Our …

Climate velocity can inform conservation in a warming world

I Brito-Morales, JG Molinos, DS Schoeman… - Trends in ecology & …, 2018‏ - cell.com
Climate change is shifting the ranges of species. Simple predictive metrics of range shifts
such as climate velocity, that do not require extensive knowledge or data on individual …

Seamounts generate efficient active transport loops to nourish the twilight ecosystem

X Wang, H Li, J Zhang, J Chen, X **e, W **e, K Yin… - Science …, 2024‏ - science.org
Seamounts are ecological oases nurturing abundant fisheries resources and epibenthic
megafauna in the vast oligotrophic ocean. Despite their significance, the formation …