The deep-sea floor ecosystem: current status and prospects of anthropogenic change by the year 2025

By Adrian G. Glover, C. Smith. Environmental Conservation, 2003

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Global habitat suitability of cold‐water octocorals (2012, positive): “The deep ocean is the most poorly sampled habitat on Earth and patterns of diversity and distribution of the majority of species remain largely unresolved (Glover & Smith, 2003).”
Identifying deep-sea megafaunal epibenthic assemblages for use in habitat mapping and marine protected area network design (2010, background): “The increasing encroachment of anthropogenic activities on the deep-sea marine environment (Glover & Smith, 2003; Davies et al., 2007) has brought into sharp focus the need to conserve and manage this environment appropriately.”
Extracellular acid-base regulation during short-term hypercapnia is effective in a shallow-water crab, but ineffective in a deep-sea crab (2007, background): “…elevated atmospheric CO2 is continually being absorbed by the world’s oceans, resulting in a pH depression of approximately 0.1 units to date, with a projected additional 0.4 unit reduction by the year 2100 (Haugan & Drange 1996, Caldeira & Wickett 2003, Glover & Smith 2003, Sabine et al. 2004).”
Deep-sea nematode assemblage has not recovered 26 years after experimental mining of polymetallic nodules (Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, Tropical Eastern Pacific) (2011, background): “According to Glover and Smith (2003), nodule mining could annually disrupt sea-floor communities over areas of 1,200 to 12,000 km2, and 15 years of such mining could conceivably impact 180,000 km2 of sea floor.”
Identifying Toxic Impacts of Metals Potentially Released during Deep-Sea Mining—A Synthesis of the Challenges to Quantifying Risk (2017, background): “However, DSM—particularly of polymetallic nodules—may continue within a license block for years to decades and the potential anthropogenic impacts may take place at unprecedented temporal and spatial scales (Glover and Smith, 2003; Selck et al., 2017).”
Meiofauna enhances organic matter mineralization in soft sediment ecosystems (2012, background): “Benthic ecosystems are currently under strong anthropogenic pressure and vulnerable to biodiversity loss (Glover and Smith 2003); therefore, the activity of meiofaunal assemblages can increase the resilience of benthic ecosystem processes essential for the functioning of the aquatic ecosystems,…”
Biological structures as a source of habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity on the deep ocean margins (2010, background): “Trawling, mining, energy extraction and waste disposal all now occur at slope and sometimes even at abyssal depths (Glover & Smith 2003; Smith et al. 2008a,b; Levin & Dayton 2009).”
Evaluating and Ranking the Vulnerability of Global Marine Ecosystems to Anthropogenic Threats (2007, background): “Human activities now affect nearly every marine ecosystem (e.g., Glover & Smith 2003; POC 2003).”
Worldwide Analysis of Sedimentary DNA Reveals Major Gaps in Taxonomic Knowledge of Deep-Sea Benthos (2016, background): “However, the impacts of human activities have increased rapidly in 47 recent decades (Glover and Smith, 2003; Benn et al., 2010), mainly through waste 48 disposal (e.”
Exponential decline of deep-sea ecosystem functioning linked to benthic biodiversity loss. (2008, neutral): “oceans, deep-sea ecosystems are already being threatened by man through trawling, dumping, oil, gas and mineral extraction, and other pollution sources [32].”