Articles | Volume 17, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-2657-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-2657-2020
Research article
 | 
15 May 2020
Research article |  | 15 May 2020

Are seamounts refuge areas for fauna from polymetallic nodule fields?

Daphne Cuvelier, Pedro A. Ribeiro, Sofia P. Ramalho, Daniel Kersken, Pedro Martinez Arbizu, and Ana Colaço

Download

Interactive discussion

Status: closed
Status: closed
AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment
Printer-friendly Version - Printer-friendly version Supplement - Supplement

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (05 Dec 2019) by Matthias Haeckel
AR by Daphne Cuvelier on behalf of the Authors (09 Jan 2020)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (31 Jan 2020) by Matthias Haeckel
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (14 Feb 2020)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (25 Feb 2020) by Matthias Haeckel
AR by Daphne Cuvelier on behalf of the Authors (09 Mar 2020)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (20 Mar 2020) by Matthias Haeckel
ED: Publish as is (23 Mar 2020) by Jack Middelburg (Co-editor-in-chief)
AR by Daphne Cuvelier on behalf of the Authors (27 Mar 2020)
Download
Short summary
Polymetallic nodule mining will remove hard substrata from the abyssal deep-sea floor. The only neighbouring ecosystems featuring hard substratum are seamounts, and their inhabiting fauna could aid in recovery post-mining. Nevertheless, first observations of seamount megafauna were very different from nodule-associated megafauna and showed little overlap. The possible uniqueness of these ecosystems implies that they should be included in management plans for the conservation of biodiversity.
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint