[HTML][HTML]  Benthic megafauna of the western Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean

G Bribiesca-Contreras, TG Dahlgren, DJ Amon… - ZooKeys, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract There is a growing interest in the exploitation of deep-sea mineral deposits,
particularly on the abyssal seafloor of the central Pacific Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) …

Machine learning applications of convolutional neural networks and unet architecture to predict and classify demosponge behavior

D Harrison, FC De Leo, WJ Gallin, F Mir, S Marini… - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Biological data sets are increasingly becoming information-dense, making it effective to use
a computer science-based analysis. We used convolution neural networks (CNN) and the …

Megafaunal ecology of the western Clarion Clipperton Zone

JM Durden, M Putts, S Bingo, AB Leitner… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) is a vast area of the central Pacific Ocean where the
abyssal seabed is a focus for future polymetallic nodule mining. Broad-scale environmental …

[HTML][HTML] In situ observation of sponge trails suggests common sponge locomotion in the deep central Arctic

TM Morganti, A Purser, HT Rapp, CR German… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
In 2016, the research ice-breaker Polarstern surveyed the submerged peaks of the
permanently ice-covered Langseth Ridge, a tectonic feature comprising the Karasik …

Plantness, Animalness, and Humanness: plant placement within animacy and adjacent scales

FC Lubbe, KG Castillo Alfonzo - Journal for the Theory of Social …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Animacy is an important framework through which humans view and categorize the world,
but many objects do not easily fit within this scale. Plants are unique because they are very …

Evolution and phylogeny of glass-sponge-associated zoantharians, with a description of two new genera and three new species

H Kise, J Montenegro, MEA Santos… - Zoological Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Hexactinellid sponges are important members of deep-sea benthic ecosystems because
they provide available hard substrate habitats for filter-feeding invertebrates. However …

New interactive machine learning tool for marine image analysis

HP Clark, AG Smith… - Royal Society …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Advancing imaging technologies are drastically increasing the rate of marine video and
image data collection. Often these datasets are not analysed to their full potential as …

Thirty-year time series study at a station in the abyssal NE Pacific: An introduction

KL Smith, CL Huffard, HA Ruhl - Deep Sea Research Part II …, 2020 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
The deep sea has always been intriguing given its vast expanse and that little is known
about processes and inhabitants below 1000 m depth. Given the paucity of information …

[HTML][HTML] Defining the target population to make marine image-based biological data FAIR

JM Durden, T Schoening, EJ Curtis, A Downie… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Marine imaging studies have unique constraints on the data collected requiring a tool for
defining the biological scope to facilitate data discovery, quality evaluation, sharing and …

What do glass sponges do when no one is looking? Vazella pourtalesii: Responses to sediment deposition, passive locomotion, and contracting behavior

J Grinyó, J Aguzzi, L Ortenzi, E Kenchington… - Deep Sea Research …, 2024 - Elsevier
Behavioral response of deep-sea sponges can provide crucial insights into the mechanisms
shaping energy fluxes and ecosystem functioning. Although some advances have been …