Andrew J. Gooday

TL;DR: A conceptual model of how interdependent environmental factors shape regional-scale variation in local diversity in the deep sea is presented, showing how environmental gradients may form geographic patterns of diversity by influencing local processes such as predation, resource partitioning, competitive exclusion, and facilitation that determine species coexistence.

TL;DR: Evidence is presented that certain small benthic Foraminifera (within the meiofaunal size-range) react dramatically to the presence of phytodetritus, suggesting that some deep-sea bentho-foramina are specialist feeders that bloom opportunistically when the appropriate food becomes available, while others remain unaffected by the organic influx.

TL;DR: Large areas of low oxygen persist seasonally or continuously beneath upwelling regions, associated with the upper parts of oxygen minimum zones (SE Pacific, W Africa, N Indian Ocean), and support a resident fauna that is adapted to survive and reproduce at oxygen concentrations.

TL;DR: This study provides scientific evidence that the conservation of deep-sea biodiversity is a priority for a sustainable functioning of the worlds' oceans and suggests that mutually positive functional interactions can be common in the largest biome of the authors' biosphere.

TL;DR: In this article, it has been shown that macroaggregates originating from the euphotic zone settle at a rate of approximately 100-150 m d -1 to form a deposit (phytodetritus) on the sediment surface.