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 …

Best environmental practice (BEP) is a key component of an ecosystem approach to
management and is typically a product of practical experience in established industries. For …

The diversity of bait-attending fishes at lower abyssal and upper hadal depths was assessed
using baited cameras in 14 subduction trenches, three fracture zones and two holes …

Generating environmental baseline knowledge is a prerequisite for evaluating and
predicting the effects of future deep seabed mining on the seafloor and in the water column …

Behavioral rhythms are a key aspect of species fitness, since optimize ecological activities of
animals in response to a constantly changing environment. Cabled observatories enable …

Demersal deep-sea fish assemblages from islands and seamounts are poorly described,
even in the Hawaiian archipelago. Knowledge across all depths, in similar settings, is even …

Seamounts are common in all ocean basins, and most have summit depths> 3,000 m.
Nonetheless, these abyssal seamounts are the least sampled and understood seamount …

Habitat restoration and recolonisation of benthic communities after physical perturbation in
the deep sea has long been thought to be extremely slow. This study reports on a …

Deep-sea decapod crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda) collected during nine research
cruises to the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the NE Pacific Ocean and the Peru Basin in …

Abstract The deep Peru Basin is characterised by a unique abyssal scavenging community
featuring large numbers of hermit crabs (Probeebei mirabilis, Decapoda, Crustacea). These …