Andrew J. Gooday

TL;DR: The potential influence on deep-sea benthic faunas of mesoscale habitat complexity arising from the presence of abyssal hills is still poorly understood as discussed by the authors, and this issue was addressed by focusing on benthica foraminifera (testate protists) in the >150-m fraction of Megacorer samples (0-1 cm layer) collected at five different sites in the area of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (NE Atlantic, 4850 m water depth).

TL;DR: A survey of Gromiids in samples collected off Oman in 2002 and off Pakistan in 2003 is presented in this article, where the authors conclude that these large protists may play an important ecological role in the bathyal Arabian Sea, particularly in carbon cycling but also in structuring the surficial sediments.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe single-chambered (monothalamous), soft-shelled, benthic foraminifera from the lower oxygen-border zone to the upper hydrogen-sulfide border zone (120 - 240m water depth) in the NW Black Sea.

TL;DR: Three new and one poorly-known species of psamminid xenophyophores (giant foraminifera) are described, all of which were found attached to polymetallic nodules in the Russian claim area of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ), suggesting that this region hosts many novel taxa.