Environment, ecology, and potential effectiveness of an area protected from deep-sea mining (Clarion Clipperton Zone, abyssal Pacific)

DNA barcoding and cryptic diversity of deep-sea scavenging amphipods in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (Eastern Equatorial Pacific)

(2021) Inga Mohrbeck et al.   Marine Biodiversity

Regional Variation in Communities of Demersal Fishes and Scavengers Across the CCZ and Pacific Ocean

(2021) Jeffrey C. Drazen et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Molecular phylogenetics of deep-sea amphipods (Eurythenes) reveal a new undescribed species at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, North East Atlantic Ocean

(2020) Tammy Horton et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Are abyssal scavenging amphipod assemblages linked to climate cycles?

(2020) Tammy Horton et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Xenophyophores (Rhizaria, Foraminifera), including four new species and two new genera, from the western Clarion-Clipperton Zone (abyssal equatorial Pacific)

(2020) Andrew J. Gooday et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

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

(2020) Torben Riehl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Multi-scale variations in invertebrate and fish megafauna in the mid-eastern Clarion Clipperton Zone

(2020) Erik Simon-Lledó et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Deep-Sea Misconceptions Cause Underestimation of Seabed-Mining Impacts

(2020) Craig R. Smith et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Evidence for long-term seamount-induced chlorophyll enhancements

(2020) Astrid B. Leitner et al.   Scientific Reports

Depression chains in seafloor of contrasting morphology, Atacama Trench margin: a comment on Marsh et al. (2018)

(2019) Autun Purser et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Ecology of a polymetallic nodule occurrence gradient: Implications for deep‐sea mining

(2019) Erik Simon‐Lledó et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Fe-Mn nodule morphotypes from the NE Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, Pacific Ocean: Comparison of mineralogy, geochemistry and genesis

(2019) L.Ye. Reykhard et al.   ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS

Biogeography and population structure of predominant macrofaunal taxa (Annelida and Isopoda) in abyssal polymetallic nodule fields: implications for conservation and management

(2019) Annika Janssen et al.   Marine Biodiversity

Abyssal fauna of polymetallic nodule exploration areas, eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Annelida: Capitellidae, Opheliidae, Scalibregmatidae, and Travisiidae

(2019) Helena Wiklund et al.   ZooKeys

An assessment of bottom current controlled sedimentation in Pacific Ocean abyssal environments

(2018) C. Juan et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Natural spatial variability of depositional conditions, biogeochemical processes and element fluxes in sediments of the eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean

(2018) Jessica B. Volz et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Geomorphological evidence of large vertebrates interacting with the seafloor at abyssal depths in a region designated for deep-sea mining

(2018) Leigh Marsh et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Implications of population connectivity studies for the design of marine protected areas in the deep sea: An example of a demosponge from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

(2018) Sergi Taboada et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Megafaunal variation in the abyssal landscape of the Clarion Clipperton Zone

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

Xenophyophores (Rhizaria, Foraminifera) from the Eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone (equatorial Pacific): the Genus Psammina

(2018) Andrew J. Gooday et al.   PROTIST

Controls on the chemical composition of ferromanganese nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, eastern equatorial Pacific

(2018) Amaya Menendez et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Distribution of n-alkanes in the ferromanganese nodule–sediment–pore water system (Clarion–Clipperton Fracture Zone)

(2017) N. A. Shulga   LITHOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES

A new genus and species of abyssal sponge commonly encrusting polymetallic nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, East Pacific Ocean

(2017) Swee-Cheng Lim et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Abyssal fauna of the UK-1 polymetallic nodule exploration area, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Mollusca

(2017) Helena Wiklund et al.   ZooKeys

Five new species and two new genera of xenophyophores (Foraminifera: Rhizaria) from part of the abyssal equatorial Pacific licensed for polymetallic nodule exploration

(2017) Andrew J Gooday et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

New species of the xenophyophore genus Aschemonella (Rhizaria: Foraminifera) from areas of the abyssal eastern Pacific licensed for polymetallic nodule exploration

(2017) Andrew J Gooday et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Impact of remotely generated eddies on plume dispersion at abyssal mining sites in the Pacific

(2017) Dmitry Aleynik et al.   Scientific Reports

Biological responses to disturbance from simulated deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining

(2017) Daniel O. B. Jones et al.   PLoS One

Compact-Morphology-based poly-metallic Nodule Delineation

(2017) Timm Schoening et al.   Scientific Reports

Do some deep-sea, sediment-dwelling species of harpacticoid copepods have 1000-km-scale range sizes?

(2016) E. E. Easton et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Polymetallic nodules, sediments, and deep waters in the equatorial North Pacific exhibit highly diverse and distinct bacterial, archaeal, and microeukaryotic communities

(2016) Christine N. Shulse et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

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

Whale-Fall Ecosystems: Recent Insights into Ecology, Paleoecology, and Evolution

(2015) Craig R. Smith et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Phylogenetic relationships among hadal amphipods of the Superfamily Lysianassoidea: Implications for taxonomy and biogeography

(2015) H. Ritchie et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

A Reverse Taxonomic Approach to Assess Macrofaunal Distribution Patterns in Abyssal Pacific Polymetallic Nodule Fields

(2015) Annika Janssen et al.   PLoS One

Expanded metabolic versatility of ubiquitous nitrite-oxidizing bacteria from the genusNitrospira

(2015) Hanna Koch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Contribution to the systematics of the genus Eurythenes S.I. Smith in Scudder, 1882 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Eurytheneidae)

(2015) CÉDRIC d’UDEKEM D’ACOZ et al.   ZOOTAXA

Discriminating between different genetic types of marine ferro-manganese crusts and nodules based on rare earth elements and yttrium

(2014) M. Bau et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Impact of depositional and biogeochemical processes on small scale variations in nodule abundance in the Clarion‐Clipperton Fracture Zone

(2014) K. Mewes et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

An Expanded Genomic Representation of the Phylum Cyanobacteria

(2014) Rochelle M. Soo et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Impact of water mass mixing on the biogeochemistry and microbiology of the Northeast Atlantic Deep Water

(2013) Thomas Reinthaler et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Genetic and Morphological Divergences in the Cosmopolitan Deep-Sea Amphipod Eurythenes gryllus Reveal a Diverse Abyss and a Bipolar Species

(2013) Charlotte Havermans et al.   PLoS One

From principles to practice: a spatial approach to systematic conservation planning in the deep sea

(2013) L. M. Wedding et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Deep-ocean mineral deposits as a source of critical metals for high- and green-technology applications: Comparison with land-based resources

(2012) James R. Hein et al.   ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS

A comprehensive study of sterols in marine diatoms (Bacillariophyta): Implications for their use as tracers for diatom productivity

(2011) Sebastiaan W. Rampen et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Pacific ocean circulation based on observation

(2010) Masaki Kawabe et al.   JOURNAL OF OCEANOGRAPHY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

(2010) J. G. Caporaso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The trophic ecology of key megafaunal species at the Pakistan Margin: Evidence from stable isotopes and lipid biomarkers

(2009) Rachel M. Jeffreys et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Lipid, sterols and fatty acid composition of abyssal holothurians and ophiuroids from the North-East Pacific Ocean: Food web implications

(2008) Jeffrey C. Drazen et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Influence of oxygen on heterotrophic reworking of sedimentary lipids at the Pakistan margin

(2008) Rachel M. Jeffreys et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Abyssal food limitation, ecosystem structure and climate change

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