Biodiversity, biogeography, and connectivity of polychaetes in the world's largest marine minerals exploration frontier

Stewart, Eva C. D.; Bribiesca‐Contreras, Guadalupe; Taboada, Sergi; Wiklund, Helena; Ravara, Ascensão; Pape, Ellen; De Smet, Bart; Neal, Lenka; Cunha, Marina R.; Jones, Daniel O. B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5218-1649; Smith, Craig R.; Glover, Adrian G.; Dahlgren, Thomas G.. 2023 Biodiversity, biogeography, and connectivity of polychaetes in the world's largest marine minerals exploration frontier. Diversity and Distributions. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13690

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13690

Abstract/Summary

The abyssal Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), Pacific Ocean, is an area of commercial importance owing to the growing interest in mining high-grade polymetallic nodules at the seafloor for battery metals. Research into the spatial patterns of faunal diversity, composition, and population connectivity is needed to better understand the ecological impacts of potential resource extraction. Here, a DNA taxonomy approach is used to investigate regional-scale patterns of taxonomic and phylogenetic alpha and beta diversity, and genetic connectivity, of the dominant macrofaunal group (annelids) across a 6 million km2 region of the abyssal seafloor.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13690
ISSN:	1366-9516
Date made live:	15 May 2023 10:30 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/534529

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13690

ISSN:

1366-9516

Date made live:

15 May 2023 10:30 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/534529