Anna Sanchez-Vidal

TL;DR: It is shown that deep-sea sediments are a likely sink for microplastics, and the dominance of microfibres points to a previously underreported and unsampled plastic fraction.

TL;DR: While densities and diversities of some taxa can recover to or even exceed pre-disturbance levels, community composition remains affected after decades, and community shifts that persist over geological timescales at mined sites are identified.

TL;DR: The load of microplastics in the Western Mediterranean Sea is determined and microplastic aggregation potential was determined by inspecting formed biogenic aggregates either during sample collection or in the laboratory, indicating longer exposure times in the environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of intense episodes of both dense shelf water cascading and open-sea convection to the progressive modification of the NW Mediterranean deep waters has been highlighted.

TL;DR: These findings demonstrate, first, that severe coastal storms are highly efficient in transporting organic carbon from shallow water to deep water, thus contributing to its sequestration and, second, that natural, intermittent atmospheric drivers sensitive to global climate change have the potential to tremendously impact the largest and least known ecosystem on Earth, the deep-sea ecosystem.