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Meetings
CoML/COMARGE workshop towards a globalization of the project"
The 6th and 7th of June 2006, 36 participants, coming from 18 countries, discussed such margin issues as large scale biodiversity patterns and processes, scales and consequences of habitat heterogeneity and human impacts. The workshop concluded with a definition of four scientific themes that should be adressed by COMARGE in the future.
Workshop on habitat classification and mapping on deep continental margins
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
4 - 6 June 2007
Organized by Alan J. Hughes and Lénaick Menot
Workshop on squat lobsters
National Institute of Water and Atmosphere, Wellington, New-Zealand
3 - 7 September 2007
Organized by Gary C. B. Poore
Workshop on large-scale patterns in bathyal free-living nematodes
Ghent University, Belgium
28 Januray - 1 February 2008
Organized by Ann Vanreusel
Workshop on the roles of habitat heterogeneity in generating and maintaining continental margin biodiversity
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, USA
8 - 12 September 2008
Organized by Lisa Levin
Expeditions
Costa Rica Rocks!
The CCROCKS! research cruise explored methane seeps, sunken woods, oxygen minimum zone and corals off Costa Rica.
INSPIRE: Chile Margin 2010
From 24 February to 17 March, the educational cruise INSPIRE on board R/V Melville will explore chemosynthetic ecosystems along the Chile margin.
Publications
Butterflies of the sea
Baba, K., Macpherson, E., Poore, G.C.B., Ahyong, S.T., Bermudez, A., Cabezas, P., Lin, C.-W., Nizinski, M., Rodrigues, C., Schnabel, K.E., 2008. Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura - families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). Zootaxa 1905, 1-220. Available online on Zootaxa website.
Deeper Than Light
By Baker, M., Ebbe, B., Hoyer, J., Menot, L., Narayanaswamy, B., Ramirez-Llodra, E. & Steffensen, M. - A collaborative book of the deep-sea field projects of the Census of Marine Life to enlighten all publics on deep-sea life.
The Deep Gulf of Mexico Benthos Program
Deep Sea Research Part II: Tropical Studies in Oceanography
A special issue edited by Gilbert T. Rowe and Mahlon C. Kennicutt
Benthic Biological and Biogeochemical Patterns and Processes Across an Oxygen Minimum Zone (Pakistan Margin, NE Arabian Sea)
Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
Volume 56, Issues 6-7, Pages 261-502
Edited by Greg Cowie and Lisa Levin
Deep-Sea Benthic Ecosystems of the Equatorial African Margin: The Multidisciplinary BIOZAIRE Program
Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
Volume 56, Issue 23, Pages 2155 - 2404
Edited by Myriam Sibuet and Annick Vangriesheim
The roles of habitat heterogeneity in generating and maintaining biodiversity on continental margins
Marine Ecology
Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 1-260 (open access)
Edited by Lisa A. Levin, Myriam Sibuet, Andrew J. Gooday, Craig R. Smith & Ann Vanreusel
Ecological theory and continental margins: where shallow meets deep
Faunal zonation of large epibenthic invertebrates off North Carolina revisited
Bathymetric zonation of deep-sea macrofauna in relation to export of surface phytoplankton production
Marine Ecology Progress Series
Volume 399, pages 1- 14 (feature article open access)
Chih-Lin Wei, Gilbert T. Rowe, G. Fain Hubbard, Amélie H. Scheltema, George D. F. Wilson, Iorgu Petrescu, John M. Foster, Mary K. Wicksten, Min Chen, Roe Davenport, Yousria Soliman, Yuning Wang
Discoveries
Two new species discovered in the deep Gulf of Cadiz
Exploration in the deep Gulf of Cadiz reveals new species of shrimp and hydroid associated with mud volcanoes.
Focus
Seabed biodiversity in oxygen minimum zones
Some regions of the deep ocean floor support abundant populations of organisms, despite being overlain by water that contains very little oxygen but global warming is likely to exacerbate oxygen depletion and thereby reduce biodiversity in these regions.