Michael A. Rex

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: The first global-scale analysis of standing stock (abundance and biomass) for 4 major size classes of deep-sea biota: bacteria, meta- zoan meiofauna, macrofauna and megafauna shows a dramatic decrease in total community standing stock and the ascendancy of smaller organisms with depth.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report that deep-sea bivalves, gastropods and isopods show clear latitudinal diversity gradients in the North Atlantic, and strong interregional variation in the South Atlantic.

TL;DR: This biomass census and associated maps are vital components of mechanistic deep-sea food web models and global carbon cycling, and as such provide fundamental information that can be incorporated into evidence-based management.