Aquatic ecosystems are degraded by a variety of pressures as a result of the growing human
population. Global‐scale impacts include homogenization of biological communities …

1. Global-scale environmental degradation and its links with non-renewable fossil fuels have
led to an increasing interest in generating electricity from renewable energy resources …

Towed bottom-fishing gears are thought to constitute one of the largest global anthropogenic
sources of disturbance to the seabed and its biota. The current drive towards an ecosystem …

The effects of towed bottom‐fishing gear on benthic communities is the subject of heated
debate, but the generality of trawl effects with respect to gear and habitat types is poorly …

Fishing affects the seabed habitat worldwide on the continental shelf. These impacts are
patchily distributed according to the spatial and temporal variation in fishing effort that results …

Summary 1 Trawling disturbance has wide‐ranging impacts on the marine environment and
is well known to modify benthic habitat and community structure. This has led to speculation …

Bottom trawling causes chronic and widespread disturbance to the seabed in shallow shelf
seas and could lead to changes in the trophic structure and function of benthic communities …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the geographical and local distribution of scallop
populations, concentrating on the species of commercial importance. It also discusses the …

Generating electricity from waves is predicted to be a new source of renewable energy
conversion expanding significantly, with a global potential in the range of wind and …

Historically, advances in our knowledge of benthic community structure and functioning
have necessarily relied upon destructive sampling devices (grabs, cores, anchor dredges …