A riot of species in an environmental calm: the paradox of the species-rich deep-sea floor

By P. Snelgrove, C. Smith. 2002

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Man and the Last Great Wilderness: Human Impact on the Deep Sea (2011, background): “This heterogeneity, taken together with the vast areas of the deep sea has reinforced the concept of high biodiversity [20–23].”
Species-energy relationship in the deep sea: a test using the Quaternary fossil record (2005, background): “This is further supported by the fact that empirical studies of modern deep-sea assemblages have revealed no consistent relationship between productivity and richness (Thomas & Gooday 1996; Gooday 1999; Levin et al. 2001; Glover et al. 2002; Lambshead et al. 2002; Snelgrove & Smith 2002).”
Deep, diverse and definitely different: unique attributes of the world's largest ecosystem (2010, background): “, 1997; Lambshead and Boucher, 2003) and what mechanisms maintain such high diversity (Grassle and Sanders, 1973; Grassle, 1989; Gage and Tyler, 1991; Etter and Grassle, 1992; Lambshead, 1993; Rogers, 2000; Levin et al., 2001; Snelgrove and Smith, 2002; Rex et al., 2005b) have been constantly discus”
Habitat heterogeneity and its influence on benthic biodiversity in oxygen minimum zones (2010, background): “Animal tracks, pits, mounds, burrows, dwelling structures and other biogenic constructions are an important source of sea floor heterogeneity, which they create either directly or indirectly by focusing OM (Grassle & Morse-Porteous 1987; Thiel et al. 1989; Snelgrove & Smith 2002).”
Extreme sensitivity of biological function to temperature in Antarctic marine species (2004, background): “Most species on earth probably live either in the deep-sea (Grassle & Maciolek 1992; Snelgrove & Smith 2002), mid to deep ocean depths, or in the polar oceans (Clarke & Johnston 2003), where temperatures are below 5°C, are very stable, and have been so for long evolutionary periods.”
The Role of Biodiversity in the Functioning of Freshwater and Marine Benthic Ecosystems (2004, unknown): “…at the bottom of rivers,wetlands,lakes,and oceans are of particular importance because of their high biodiversity and their global significance for the storage and cycling of materials, nutrients, and energy flow (Covich et al. 1999, Snelgrove 1999, Austen et al. 2002, Snelgrove and Smith 2002).”
On some hypotheses of diversity of animal life at great depths on the sea floor (2015, background): “However, as noted by Snelgrove & Smith (2002) and Gray et al. (1997), the notion of exceptionally high diversity of the deep sea is based on very few specific comparisons of species diversity between ‘shallow’ and ‘deep’ data sets; more than a decade later, this statement still holds true.”
How many species in the Southern Ocean? Towards a dynamic inventory of the Antarctic marine species (2011, background): “…been variously estimated by different authors, and was the subject of intense debate (e.g., Grassle and Maciolek, 1992, estimating a total of 10 million macrofaunal species; Poore and Wilson, 1993, around 5 million; May, 1993, 2004, less than 1 million; see discussion in Snelgrove and Smith, 2002).”
Characteristics of meiofauna in extreme marine ecosystems: a review (2018, background): “…availability; see Kiriakoulakis et al. 2011) enriches the sedimentary standing stock, and disturbance regimes stimulate recolonisation processes on a regular basis, allowing biodiversity enrichment, at least for meiofauna (Snelgrove and Smith 2002; Ingels et al. 2011c; Ingels and Vanreusel 2013).”
Biodiversity of macrofaunal assemblages from three Portuguese submarine canyons (NE Atlantic) (2011, result): “The values from pooled samples in Nazaré are among the lowest ES(100) estimates in comparison with different deep-sea regions reviewed by Snelgrove and Smith (2002).”
The deep-sea floor ecosystem: current status and prospects of anthropogenic change by the year 2025 (2003, background): “The same cannot be said for soft-sediment benthic habitats, which also harbour high levels of biodiversity (Gage 2001; Snelgrove & Smith 2002), yet are not so picturesque.”