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SUBMITTER: Riehl T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7355009 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200618 27
Habitat heterogeneity and species diversity are often linked. On the deep seafloor, sediment variability and hard-substrate availability influence geographic patterns of species richness and turnover. The assumption of a generally homogeneous, sedimented abyssal seafloor is at odds with the fact that the faunal diversity in some abyssal regions exceeds that of shallow-water environments. Here we show, using a ground-truthed analysis of multibeam sonar data, that the deep seafloor may be much roc ...[more]