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| Jones, Daniel O. B.; Kaiser, Stefanie; Sweetman, Andrew K.; Smith, Craig R.; Menot, Lenaick; Vink, Annemiek; Trueblood, Dwight; Greinert, Jens; Billett, David S. M.; Arbizu, Pedro Martinez; Radziejewska, Teresa; Singh, Ravail; Ingole, Baban; Stratmann, Tanja; Simon-lledo, Erik; Durden, Jennifer M.; Clark, Malcolm R.. |
| Commercial-scale mining for polymetallic nodules could have a major impact on the deep-sea environment, but the effects of these mining activities on deep-sea ecosystems are very poorly known. The first commercial test mining for polymetallic nodules was carried out in 1970. Since then a number of small-scale commercial test mining or scientific disturbance studies have been carried out. Here we evaluate changes in faunal densities and diversity of benthic communities measured in response to these 11 simulated or test nodule mining disturbances using meta-analysis techniques. We find that impacts are often severe immediately after mining, with major negative changes in density and diversity of most groups occurring. However, in some cases, the mobile fauna... |
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| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00371/48212/48330.pdf |
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| Kazanidis, Georgios; Orejas, Covadonga; Borja, Angel; Kenchington, Ellen; Henry, Lea-anne; Callery, Oisín; Carreiro-silva, Marina; Egilsdottir, Hronn; Giacomello, Eva; Grehan, Anthony; Menot, Lenaick; Morato, Telmo; Ragnarsson, Stefán Áki; Rueda, José Luis; Stirling, David; Stratmann, Tanja; Van Oevelen, Dick; Palialexis, Andreas; Johnson, David; Roberts, J Murray. |
| The deep sea is the largest biome on Earth but the least explored. Our knowledge of it comes from scattered sources spanning different spatial and temporal scales. Implementation of marine policies like the European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and support for Blue Growth in the deep sea are therefore hindered by lack of data. Integrated assessments of environmental status require tools to work with different and disaggregated datasets (e.g. density of deep-sea habitat-forming species, body-size distribution of commercial fishes, intensity of bottom trawling) across spatial and temporal scales. A feasibility study was conducted as part of the four-year ATLAS project to assess the effectiveness of the open-access Nested Environmental... |
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Palavras-chave: Deep-sea environmental status; Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems; Indicators; Baselines; Marine Strategy Framework Directive; NEAT. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00651/76276/77241.pdf |
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