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Giant, highly diverse protists in the abyssal Pacific: vulnerability to impacts from seabed mining and potential for recovery
Xenophyophores, giant deep-sea agglutinated foraminifera, dominate the benthic megafauna in the eastern equatorial Pacific Clarion-Clipperton Zone. This abyssal (>4000 m depth) region hosts major deposits of polymetallic nodules targeted for future seabed mining, an activity that would destroy th...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7714518/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33312334 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2020.1843818 |