Les Watling

TL;DR: The effects of mobile fishing gear on biodiversity are most severe where natural disturbance is least prevalent, particularly on the outer continental shelf and slope, where storm-wave damage is negligible and biological processes, including growth, tend to be slow as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Algae are subdivided into seven functional groups based on the size and toughness of the plant relative to the feeding ability of the mollusc, and this functional group approach suggests various hypotheses concerning algal community structure, plant/herbivore and herbivore/herBivore interactions, the relative importance of structural defenses in algae, and the evolution of specialized grazers.

TL;DR: Improvements in the analysis of lipid-bound phosphates resulted in a simplified and sensitive method for determining microbial biomass in sediments that was both accurate and precise and could be successfully applied to a wider variety of sediment types.

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 paper, the authors proposed global biogeographic provinces for the lower bathyal and abyssal benthos (>800m depths) in order to aid high seas management efforts.