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ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON REGIONAL DEEP-SEA SPECIES DIVERSITY
Most of our knowledge of biodiversity and its causes in the deep-sea benthos derives from regional-scale sampling studies of the macrofauna. Improved sampling methods and the expansion of… Expand
Deep-Sea Biodiversity: Pattern and Scale
Frigid, dark, and energy-deprived, the deep sea was long considered hostile to life. However, new sampling technologies and intense international research efforts in recent decades have revealed a… Expand
Global bathymetric patterns of standing stock and body size in the deep-sea benthos
We present the first global-scale analy- sis of standing stock (abundance and biomass) for 4 major size classes of deep-sea biota: bacteria, meta- zoan meiofauna, macrofauna and megafauna. The… Expand
Global-scale latitudinal patterns of species diversity in the deep-sea benthos
- M. Rex, C. Stuart, R. Hessler, J. Allen, H. L. Sanders, G. F. Wilson
- Geography
- Nature
- 1 October 1993
LATITUDINAL gradients of species diversity are ubiquitous features of terrestrial and coastal marine biotas, and they have inspired the development of theoretical ecology13. Since the discovery of… Expand
Universal cytochrome b primers facilitate intraspecific studies in molluscan taxa.
- T. J. Merritt, L. Shi, M. C. Chase, M. Rex, R. Etter, J. Quattro
- Biology, Medicine
- Molecular marine biology and biotechnology
- 1 March 1998
We describe the construction of amplification primers designed to target a portion of the mitochondrial cytochrome b locus in a variety of molluscan taxa. Combinations of two sets of primers… Expand
Global Patterns and Predictions of Seafloor Biomass Using Random Forests
- Chih-Lin Wei, G. Rowe, +28 authors B. Narayanaswamy
- Biology, Medicine
- PloS one
- 30 December 2010
A comprehensive seafloor biomass and abundance database has been constructed from 24 oceanographic institutions worldwide within the Census of Marine Life (CoML) field projects. The machine-learning… Expand
A Source‐Sink Hypothesis for Abyssal Biodiversity
- M. Rex, C. McClain, +4 authors A. Warén
- Biology, Medicine
- The American Naturalist
- 22 December 2004
Bathymetric gradients of biodiversity in the deep‐sea benthos constitute a major class of large‐scale biogeographic phenomena. They are typically portrayed and interpreted as variation in α diversity… Expand
Energetics of life on the deep seafloor
- C. McClain, A. Allen, D. Tittensor, M. Rex
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 4 September 2012
With frigid temperatures and virtually no in situ productivity, the deep oceans, Earth’s largest ecosystem, are especially energy-deprived systems. Our knowledge of the effects of this energy… Expand