Chile is the world's leading producer of many terrestrial mineral resources; however, the
potential of the country's marine mineral resources has been largely overlooked. Within its …

The Salas y Gómez and Nazca ridges are two seamount chains of volcanic origin, which
include over 110 seamounts that collectively stretch across over 2,900 km in the …

The Salas y Gómez and Nazca ridges are two adjacent seamount chains off the west coast
of South America that collectively contain more than 110 seamounts. The ridges support an …

Abstract The Easter Island ecoregion (EIE) is one of the most remote marine areas of the
world and encompasses a vast and fragile ecosystem including oceanic islands and …

In Chile, light-dependent benthic taxa have been observed to~ 280 m with the presence of
zooxanthellate cnidarians forming mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) to depths of at least …

On-going climate change is now recognized to yield physiological stresses on marine
species, with potentially detrimental effects on ecosystems. Here, we evaluate the prospect …

The Juan Fernández Ridge (JFRE) is a vulnerable marine ecosystem (VME) located off the
coast of central Chile formed by the Juan Fernández Archipelago and a group of seamounts …

The seabed included in the Chilean Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) has proper conditions
to originate and host different ore deposits, but its geological knowledge is scarce and …

Commercial fishing data were analyzed in order to reconstruct the history of the demersal
fishery on Condor seamount, a temporarily protected area in the Northeast Atlantic (Azores) …

The Hawaiian antipatharian coral previously identified as Leiopathes glaberrima (Esper,
1792) and Leiopathes sp. is described using polyp morphology, skeletal spine morphology …