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Biodiversity, biogeography, and connectivity of polychaetes in the world's largest marine minerals exploration frontier
Stewart, E.C.D.; Bribiesca-Contreras, G.; Taboada, S.; Wiklund, H.; Ravara, A.; Pape, E.; De Smet, B.; Neal, L.; Cunha, M.R.; Jones, D.; Smith, C.R.; Glover, A.G.; Dahlgren, T.G. (2023). Biodiversity, biogeography, and connectivity of polychaetes in the world's largest marine minerals exploration frontier. Diversity Distrib. 29(6): 727-747. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13690
In: Diversity and Distributions. Blackwell: Oxford. ISSN 1366-9516; e-ISSN 1472-4642
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Keywords
    Polychaeta [WoRMS]
    Marine/Coastal
Authors  Top 
  • Stewart, E.C.D.
  • Bribiesca-Contreras, G.
  • Taboada, S.
  • Wiklund, H.
  • Ravara, A.
  • Pape, E.
  • De Smet, B.
  • Neal, L.
  • Cunha, M.R.
  • Jones, D.
  • Smith, C.R.
  • Glover, A.G.
  • Dahlgren, T.G.
Abstract
    The abyssal Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), Pacific Ocean, is an area of com-mercial 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 ap-proach 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.
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