Seamount benthos in a cobalt-rich crust region of the central Pacific: Conservation challenges for future seabed mining

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 491-502

  Schlacher, Thomas A ^a   Baco, Amy R ^b   Rowden, Ashley A ^c   O'Hara, Timothy D ^d   Clark, Malcolm R ^c   Kelley, Chris ^e   Dower, John F ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Benthic assemblages; Cobalt rich crust; Conservation; Deep sea; Mining; Seamounts

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BENTHOS; COBALT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DEEP WATER; DISTURBANCE; FAUNISTICS; GUIDELINE; INVERTEBRATE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MINING; MORPHOLOGY; OCEANIC CRUST; SEAMOUNT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84897962492     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12142     Document Type: Article

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