How many metazoan species live in the world's largest mineral exploration region?

M Rabone, JH Wiethase, E Simon-Lledó, AM Emery… - Current biology, 2023 - cell.com
The global surge in demand for metals such as cobalt and nickel has created
unprecedented interest in deep-sea habitats with mineral resources. The largest area of …

A review of megafauna diversity and abundance in an exploration area for polymetallic nodules in the eastern part of the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone (North East …

K Uhlenkott, K Meyn, A Vink, P Martínez Arbizu - Marine Biodiversity, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCZ) is an abyssal region in the north-east
Pacific that is currently being explored for metal-rich polymetallic nodules, but also harbors a …

New deep-water Bryozoa from the Magellan Seamounts, tropical western Pacific, with a global review of bryozoans associated with ferromanganese crusts

AV Grischenko - Progress in Oceanography, 2022 - Elsevier
The sessile benthic fauna on ferromanganese (Fe-Mn) crusts is poorly known, with many
groups of invertebrates still barely examined. Collections made during Yuzhmorgeologiya …

Habitat heterogeneity enhances megafaunal biodiversity at bathymetric elevations in the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone

K Uhlenkott, E Simon-Lledó, A Vink… - Marine Biodiversity, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCZ) in the northeast Pacific is a
heterogeneous deep-sea environment, featuring abyssal plains as well as multiple …

An application of morphological analysis and DNA barcoding to identify Ipnops from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) as I. meadi Nielsen, 1966 with notes on other …

R Thiel, M Christodoulou, JJ Pogonoski… - Marine Biodiversity, 2022 - Springer
Although Ipnops specimens are relatively common in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone
(CCZ), an area targeted for potential future deep-sea mining, a reliable species identification …