Deep-sea biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea: the known, the unknown, and the unknowable.

Deep-sea biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea: the known, the unknown, and the unknowable.

Deep-sea ecosystems represent the largest biome of the global biosphere, but knowledge of their biodiversity is still scant. The Mediterranean basin has been proposed as a hot spot of terrestrial and coastal marine biodiversity but has been supposed to be impoverished of deep-sea species richness. W...

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Main Authors: Roberto Danovaro, Joan Batista Company, Cinzia Corinaldesi, Gianfranco D'Onghia, Bella Galil, Cristina Gambi, Andrew J Gooday, Nikolaos Lampadariou, Gian Marco Luna, Caterina Morigi, Karine Olu, Paraskevi Polymenakou, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, Anna Sabbatini, Francesc Sardà, Myriam Sibuet, Anastasios Tselepides
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2914020?pdf=render

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