The deep sea is the part of the World Ocean below the continental shelves. Covering nearly
two thirds of the earth's surface, it is by far the most extensive ecosystem on our planet; yet …

The ecology of bottom-living fishes was investigated from a series of collections off
northwest Africa in the area 08°–27° N and 14°–30° W from sounding of 261–6059 m. The …

Food webs are diagrams depicting which species in a community interact. They depict
binary relationships—whether species interact or not—and must miss much important …

We present the first global-scale analysis of standing stock (abundance and biomass) for 4
major size classes of deep-sea biota: bacteria, metazoan meiofauna, macrofauna and …

For years scientists viewed the deep sea as calm, quiet, and undisturbed, with marine
species existing in an ecologically stable and uniform environment. Recent discoveries have …

Benthic and pelagic marine habitats, like terrestrial landscapes, can be viewed as mosaics
of environmental quality produced by spatial and temporal variation in the physical and …

Bathymetric gradients of biodiversity in the deep-sea benthos constitute a major class of
large-scale biogeographic phenomena. They are typically portrayed and interpreted as …

The purpose of quantifying the abundance of life in the deep sea followed the rationale that
early naturalists used in quantifying abundance of life in shallow water. They were searching …

Bacteria are the primary agents of the early diagenesis of organic matter (OM) in marine
sediments. The reasons for their predominant roles are straightforward:(1) they occur …

Free vehicle, baited camera, and baited trap stations at 9600 and 9800 m on the bottom of
the axis of the Philippine Trench demonstrate the presence of only one mobile scavenger …