Can We Protect Seamounts for Research? A Call for Conservation
Extractive processes such as fishing and mining are degrading seamount ecosystems considerably, raising serious concerns about the impacts of these practices on global ocean biodiversity and key fluxes. Despite the data collected to date, we remain ignorant of the quantitative details of many of the...
Main Authors: | Telmo Morato, Tony J. Pitcher, Malcolm R. Clark, Gui Menezes, Fernando Tempera, Filipe Porteiro, Eva Giacomello, Ricardo S. Santos |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Oceanography Society
2010-03-01
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Series: | Oceanography |
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Online Access: | http://tos.org/oceanography/issues/issue_archive/issue_pdfs/23_1/23-1_morato.pdf |
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