Distribution and diversity of species associated with deep|sea ...

Distribution and diversity of species associated with deep-sea ...

Crustaceans dominated the fauna, contributing 46 % to the total number of individuals and 26 % to the total number of species. Two coral microhabitats were ...

Distribution and diversity of species associated with deep-sea ...

This paper describes the associated fauna of the deep-sea gorgonian corals. Paragorgia arborea and Primnoa resedaeformis. Composition and distribution of this ...

Shedding Light on Deep-Sea Biodiversity—A Highly Vulnerable ...

There are many potential parameters that may contribute significantly to the species diversity found in the deep sea, such as time, stable environmental ...

Biodiversity and distribution patterns of deep-sea fauna along the ...

Our highest number of distribution records and gamma species richness during the last decade peaked at intermediate latitudes (42°−44°N) along the mesopelagic ...

Diversity, Distribution and Phylogenetic Relationships of Deep-Sea ...

Eleven lithistid species are recognized to occur in the Azores, including Leiodermatium tuba, recently described from material collected in ...

Deep-sea exploration of marine ecosystems

Over the last century it has been demonstrated that the deep sea harbours a great variety of habitats which host a large diversity of species ...

Distribution and species diversity of deep-sea nematodes in the ...

Species diversity is higher in the hemipelagic than turbidite and pelagic sediments. ... All three sediments support more diverse nematode assemblages than those ...

Deep-Sea Species Richness: Regional and Local Diversity ... - jstor

about species diversity and associated ecosystem functions, in both marine and ... An evaluation of deviation from the lognormal distribution among species ...

Species distribution models of two critically endangered deep-sea ...

... biodiversity. In the Mediterranean Sea deep-sea coral habitats are associated with commercially important crustaceans, consequently their ...

Deep-sea Coral Ecology, Health, and Diversity - nccos

The habitats and their stressors vary in character from region to region. The West Atlantic harbors large areas of deep-sea stony coral reefs in the midst of ...

On some hypotheses of diversity of animal life at great depths on the ...

(1992) Patterns of species diversity in the deep sea as a function of sediment particle size diversity. ... distribution of deep-sea benthic foraminifera in the ...

Alternating regimes of shallow and deep-sea diversification explain ...

Most fish species live in shallow waters despite >90% of habitable ocean occurring in the deep sea. We show that present-day diversity patterns are the outcome ...

Getting to the Bottom of Marine Biodiversity: Sedimentary Habitats ...

Most of the species diversity in marine ecosystems consists of invertebrates residing in (infauna) and on (epifauna) sediments. These invertebrates include ...

Census of Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life (CeDAMar)

The deep sea harbors vast numbers of species, most of which are still unknown. Global estimates of marine species vary between 500,000 and 10 million. Since ...

Diversity, Distribution and Nature of Faunal Associations with Deep ...

Biodiversity associated with each sea pen is analyzed according to season, depth and region using either close associates or the broader collection of species.

Environmental Influences on Regional Deep-Sea Species Diversity1

Recent assessments of diversity using species accumulation curves with randomly pooled samples confirm the often-disputed claim that the deep ...

Explaining bathymetric diversity patterns in marine benthic ...

The potential for depth-range extension and colonisation of the deep sea by shallow-water species persists; there is evidence that the echinoid sea urchin ...

Global distribution of coral diversity: Biodiversity knowledge ...

The western Indian Ocean was predicted to have the most coral species, with greater diversities than in the Indo-Pacific Coral Triangle. We ...

Seafloor heterogeneity influences the biodiversity–ecosystem ...

Theoretical ecology predicts that heterogeneous habitats allow more species to co-exist in a given area. In the deep sea, biodiversity is ...

Deep-Sea Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea - ResearchGate

Rarefaction curves allowed us to estimate the expected number of species for each benthic component in different bathymetric ranges. A large fraction of ...