… and macrofaunal biomass'. Our data show that, on the contrary, the megafaunal biomass …
This observation re-focuses attention on the question of food supply to the deep sea, and …

… in other deep-sea habitats, in turn affecting the species assemblage and biomass. To assess
… We found that megafaunal biomass was significantly greater on the hills (mean 13.45 g m −…

… In this study, abundance and biomass of the epibenthic megafauna at three mid-oceanic …
employed for the quantitative estimation of megafauna in the deep sea. The traditional one is …

The purpose of quantifying the abundance of life in the deep sea followed the … of biomass,
illustrated a high biomass in the equatorial Pacific or a positive relationship between biomass …

… the Atlantic deep sea) suggest that meiofaunal biomass is two orders of magnitude lower
than bacterial biomass and equivalent to macroinfaunal and invertebrate megafaunal biomass. …

… and megafaunal biomass decline more rapidly with depth, and at abyssal depths the biomass
… The dominance of macrofaunal biomass on the upper slope (Aller et al. 2002), dominant …

… and biomass (for infauna) this study documents the diversity of deep-sea benthic habitats
in … Similar to our results, holothurians also are dominant megafauna in some other deep-sea …

… Diversity and biomass of the macrofauna and megafauna were substantially reduced,
and no bottom-dwelling fish was sampled, as the reader will note from Fig. 3. The bacterial …

… of 900 and 1100 m with gentle slopes of less than 10 in which we expect the high-biomass
megafaunal assemblages to be found (figure 5; refer to §2c). Assuming an average infaunal …

… At about 2,000 m the megafaunal numerical density is … biomass of the megafauna components
in trawl samples from the same area" showed that macrofaunal and megafaunal biomass …