Discovery of widely available abyssal rock patches reveals overlooked habitat type and prompts rethinking deep-sea biodiversity

Investigating the environmental drivers of deep‐seafloor biodiversity: A case study of peracarid crustacean assemblages in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean

(2019) Oliver S. Ashford et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Vema-TRANSIT – An interdisciplinary study on the bathymetry of the Vema‐Fracture Zone and Puerto Rico Trench as well as abyssal Atlantic biodiversity

(2018) Torben Riehl et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

The effects of depth, distance, and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge on genetic differentiation of abyssal and hadal isopods (Macrostylidae)

(2018) Torben Riehl et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Does the Mid-Atlantic Ridge affect the distribution of abyssal benthic crustaceans across the Atlantic Ocean?

(2018) Simon Bober et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Habitat characterization of the Vema Fracture Zone and Puerto Rico Trench

(2018) C.W. Devey et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

The influence of habitat boundaries on evolutionary branching along environmental gradients

(2018) Rupert Mazzucco et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Megafaunal variation in the abyssal landscape of the Clarion Clipperton Zone

(2018) Erik Simon-Lledó et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Invertebrate population genetics across Earth's largest habitat: The deep-sea floor

(2017) M. L. Taylor et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Adaptive diversification in heterogeneous environments

(2017) Olivier David et al.   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY

Association of deep-sea incirrate octopods with manganese crusts and nodule fields in the Pacific Ocean

(2016) Autun Purser et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Deep-sea diversity patterns are shaped by energy availability

(2016) Skipton N. C. Woolley et al.   NATURE

Seafloor heterogeneity influences the biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships in the deep sea

(2016) Daniela Zeppilli et al.   Scientific Reports

Threatened by mining, polymetallic nodules are required to preserve abyssal epifauna

(2016) Ann Vanreusel et al.   Scientific Reports

Insights into the abundance and diversity of abyssal megafauna in a polymetallic-nodule region in the eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone

(2016) Diva J. Amon et al.   Scientific Reports

Abyssal hills – hidden source of increased habitat heterogeneity, benthic megafaunal biomass and diversity in the deep sea

(2015) Jennifer M. Durden et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

What causes large submarine landslides on low gradient (

(2015) Morelia Urlaub et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Temperature impacts on deep-sea biodiversity

(2014) Moriaki Yasuhara et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Predicting the distribution of deep-sea vulnerable marine ecosystems using high-resolution data: Considerations and novel approaches

(2014) Anna M. Rengstorf et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Environmental heterogeneity as a universal driver of species richness across taxa, biomes and spatial scales

(2014) Anke Stein et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Geomorphology of the oceans

(2014) P.T. Harris et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

A multi-scale investigation into seafloor topography of the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge based on geographic information system analysis

(2013) Tomasz Niedzielski et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

The ecosystem of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at the sub-polar front and Charlie–Gibbs Fracture Zone; ECO-MAR project strategy and description of the sampling programme 2007–2010

(2013) Imants G. Priede et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Global sediment thickness data set updated for the Australian-Antarctic Southern Ocean

(2013) Joanne M. Whittaker et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

The ECO-MAR (Ecosystem of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at the Sub-Polar Front and Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone) project: description of the benthic sampling programme 2007–2010

(2013) Imants G. Priede et al.   Marine Biology Research

Does Presence of a Mid-Ocean Ridge Enhance Biomass and Biodiversity?

(2013) Imants G. Priede et al.   PLoS One

Epifauna of the Sea of Japan collected via a new epibenthic sledge equipped with camera and environmental sensor systems

(2012) A. Brandt et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

A proposed biogeography of the deep ocean floor

(2012) Les Watling et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

The tectonic fabric of the ocean basins

(2011) Kara J. Matthews et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Habitat heterogeneity, disturbance, and productivity work in concert to regulate biodiversity in deep submarine canyons

(2010) Craig R. McClain et al.   ECOLOGY

The contribution of deep-sea macrohabitat heterogeneity to global nematode diversity

(2010) Ann Vanreusel et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

Geotechnical characteristics of deep-sea sediments from the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans

(2010) Horst G. Brandes   OCEAN ENGINEERING

26 million years of mantle upwelling below a segment of the Mid Atlantic Ridge: The Vema Lithospheric Section revisited

(2009) Anna Cipriani et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The influence of geological, geochemical, and biogenic habitat heterogeneity on seep biodiversity

(2009) Erik E. Cordes et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

Experimental biogeography: the role of environmental gradients in high geographic diversity in Cape Proteaceae

(2009) Andrew M. Latimer et al.   OECOLOGIA

Ecological theory and continental margins: where shallow meets deep

(2009) Lisa A. Levin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Age, spreading rates, and spreading asymmetry of the world's ocean crust

(2008) R. Dietmar Müller et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Abyssal food limitation, ecosystem structure and climate change

(2008) C SMITH et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION