Judith Gobin

TL;DR: The state of knowledge of marine biodiversity is analyzed based on the geographic distribution of georeferenced species records and regional taxonomic lists and it is found that the currently accepted classification of marine ecoregions of the Caribbean did not apply for the benthic distributions of five relatively well known taxonomic groups.

TL;DR: A comparison of the community structure of the macrobenthos and meiobenthos at six stations in Hamilton Harbour, Bermuda showed that the two components were affected differently by environmental disturbance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize current knowledge of the nature, extent and time and space scales of vent and seep interactions with background systems, and document an expanded footprint beyond the site of local venting or seepage with respect to elemental cycling and energy flux, habitat use, trophic interactions, and connectivity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the types of activities that are associated with global offshore oil and gas development in water depths over 200 m, the typical impacts of these activities, some of the more extreme impacts of accidental spills, and the current state of management in the major regions of offshore industrial activity including 18 exclusive economic zones.

TL;DR: In this article, a multivariate analysis was used to define those environmental variables which best explained community composition and found that the deeper sites were impoverished due to the development of anoxia below a pycnocline which formed during the wet season.