Deep-Sea Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable

Danovaro, Roberto; Corinaldesi, Cinzia; D’Onghia, Gianfranco; Galil, Bella; Gambi, Cristina; J. Gooday, Andrew; Lampadariou, Nikolaos; Marco Luna, Gian; Morigi, Caterina; Olu, Karine; Polymenakou, Paraskevi; Ramírez-Llodra, Eva; Sabbatini, Anna; Sardà, Francesc; Sibuet, Myriam; Tselepides, Anastasios

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011832

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Deep-Sea Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable

Published in PLoS ONE • Aug 2, 2010

Authors:

Roberto Danovaro

Cinzia Corinaldesi

Gianfranco D’Onghia

Abstract

Deep-sea ecosystems represent the largest biome of the global biosphere, but knowledge of their biodiversity is still scant. The Mediterranean basin has been proposed as a hot spot of terrestrial and coastal marine biodiversity but has been supposed to be impoverished of deep-sea species richness. W...

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Biodiversity

Seamount

Oceanography

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