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Aanesen M, Armstrong CW (2019) Trading off co-produced ecosystem services – Natural resource industries versus other use and non-use ecosystem service values. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 102

Afonso P et al. (2020) The Azores: A Mid-Atlantic hotspot for marine megafauna research and conservation. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 826

Ankamah-Yeboah I et al. (2020) Public perceptions of deep-sea environment: Evidence from Scotland and Norway. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 137

Ankamah-Yeboah I et al. (in press) Assessing public preferences for deep sea ecosystem conservation: A choice experiment in Norway and Scotland. Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy

Armstrong CW et al. (2017) Use and non-use values in an applied bioeconomic model of fisheries and habitat connections. Marine Resource Economics 32: 351-369

Armstrong CW et al. (2019) Expert assessment of risks posed by climate change and anthropogenic activities to ecosystem services in the deep North Atlantic Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 158

Armstrong CW et al. (2019) Valuing blue carbon changes in the Arctic Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 331

Armstrong CW et al. (2019) Willingness to pay to protect cold water corals. Conservation Biology 33: 1329-1337

Ashford OS et al. (2018) Phylogenetic and functional evidence suggests that deep-ocean ecosystems are highly sensitive to environmental change and direct human disturbance. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences 285: 20180923

Ashford OS et al. (2019) On the influence of vulnerable marine ecosystem habitats on peracarid crustacean assemblages in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation Regulatory Area. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 401

Ashford OS et al. (2019) Investigating the environmental drivers of deep‐seafloor biodiversity: A case study of peracarid crustacean assemblages in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Ecology and Evolution 9: 14167-14204

Attard KM et al. (2019) Seasonal ecosystem metabolism across shallow benthic habitats measured by aquatic eddy covariance. Limnology & Oceanography Letters 4: 79-86

Attard KM et al. (2019) Seasonal metabolism and carbon export potential of a key coastal habitat: the perennial canopy-forming macroalga Fucus vesiculosus. Limnology & Oceanography 64: 149–164

Attard KM et al. (2020) Metabolism of a subtidal rocky mussel reef in a high-temperate setting: pathways of organic C flow. Marine Ecology Progress Series 645: 41-54

Boavida J et al. (2019) Out of the Mediterranean? Post‐glacial colonization pathways varied among cold‐water coral species. Journal of Biogeography 46: 915–931

Boavida J et al. (2019) Past, present and future connectivity of Mediterranean cold water corals: patterns, drivers and fate in a technically and environmentally changing world. In: Orejas C, Jimenez C (eds) Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future, Coral Reefs of the World 9, Springer International Publishing, p 357-372

Boschen-Rose R et al. (2020) Engaging with industry to spur Blue Growth. Journal of Coastal Research 95: 835-839

Brandt MI et al. (2020) An assessment of environmental metabarcoding protocols aiming at favoring contemporary biodiversity in inventories of deep-sea communities. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 234

Brandt MI et al. (2020) A flexible pipeline combining clustering and correction tools for prokaryotic and eukaryotic metabarcoding. bioRxiv 717355, ver. 3 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Ecology.

Brooker E et al. (2018) Scotland as a case study for how benefits of marine ecosystem services may contribute to the commercial fishing industry. Marine Policy 93: 271-283

Canonico G et al. (2019) Global observational needs and resources for marine biodiversity. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 367

Carreiro-Silva M et al. (2017) Zoantharians (Hexacorallia: Zoantharia) associated with cold-water corals in the Azores Region: New species and associations in the deep sea. Frontiers in Marine Science 4: 88

Cormier R et al. (2017) Moving from ecosystem-based policy objectives to operational implementation of ecosystem-based management measures. ICES Journal of Marine Science 74: 406–413

Crocket KC et al. (2018) Rare Earth element distribution in the NE Atlantic: Evidence for benthic sources, longevity of the seawater signal, and biogeochemical cycling. Frontiers in Marine Science 5: 147

De Clippele LH et al. (2017) Using novel acoustic and visual mapping tools to predict the small-scale spatial distribution of live biogenic reef framework in cold-water coral habitats. Coral Reefs 36: 255–268.

De Clippele LH et al. (2018) The effect of local hydrodynamics on the spatial extent and morphology of cold-water coral habitats at Tisler Reef, Norway. Coral Reefs 37: 253–266

De Clippele LH et al. (2019) The diversity and ecological role of non-scleractinian corals (Antipatharia and Alcyonacea) on Scleractinian cold-water coral mounds. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 184

De Clippele LH et al. (2021) Mapping cold-water coral biomass: an approach to derive ecosystem functions. Coral Reefs 40: 215-231

De Clippele LH et al. (2021) The future of our seas: marine scientists and creative professionals collaborate for science communication. Research For All 5: 134-156

De Froe E et al. (2019) Benthic oxygen and nitrogen exchange on a cold-water coral reef in the North-East Atlantic Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 665

Diz D et al. (2018) Mainstreaming marine biodiversity into the SDGs: The role of other effective area-based conservation measures (SDG 14.5). Marine Policy 93: 251-261

Dominguez-Carrió C et al. (2021) A cost‐effective video system for a rapid appraisal of deep‐sea benthic habitats: the Azor drift‐cam.Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Durán Muñoz P et al. (2020) Cold-water corals and deep-sea sponges by-catch mitigation: Dealing with groundfish survey data in the management of the northwest Atlantic Ocean high seas fisheries. Marine Policy 116: 103712

Farrell ED et al. (2016) Next Gen Pop Gen: implementing a high-throughput approach to population genetics in boarfish (Capros aper). Royal Society Open Science 3: 160651

Ferreira MA et al. (2018) Developing a performance evaluation mechanism for Portuguese marine spatial planning using a participatory approach. Journal of Cleaner Production 180: 913-923

Fox AD et al. (2016) Sensitivity of marine protected area network connectivity to atmospheric variability. Royal Society Open Science 3: 160494

Fox AD et al. (2019) An efficient multi-objective optimization method for use in the design of Marine Protected Area networks. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 17

Frajka-Williams E et al. (2019) Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Observed transport and variability. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 260

Gaebel C et al. (2020) Recognising stakeholder conflict and encouraging consensus of 'science-based' management approaches for marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ). Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 557546

Gallagher J et al. (2018) Mitochondrial D-loop DNA analyses of Norway Lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) reveals genetic isolation between Atlantic and East Mediterranean populations. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 99: 933–940.

García-Alegre A et al. (2020) Seabed litter distribution in the high seas of the Flemish Pass area (NW Atlantic). Scientia Marina 84: 93-101

Gargan LM et al. (2017) Development of a sensitive detection method to survey pelagic biodiversity using eDNA and quantitative PCR: a case study of devil ray at seamounts. Marine Biology 164: 112

Gary S et al. (2020) Larval behaviour, dispersal and population connectivity in the deep sea. Scientific Reports 10: 10675

Gofas S et al. (2020) Planktotrophic Columbellidae (Gastropoda) in the northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea, with description of a new species in the genus Mitrella. Bulletin of Marine Science 96: 145-168.

Goodbody-Gringley G, Waletich J (2018) Morphological plasticity of the depth generalist coral, Montastraea cavernosa, on mesophotic reefs in Bermuda. Ecology 99: 1688-1690

Grehan AJ et al. (2017) Towards ecosystem based management and monitoring of the deep Mediterranean, North-East Atlantic and beyond. Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 145: 1-7

Gress E et al. (2017) Lionfish (Pterois spp.) invade the upper-bathyal zone in the western Atlantic. PeerJ 5: e3683

Hátún H et al. (2017) The subpolar gyre regulates silicate concentrations in the North Atlantic. Scientific Reports 7: 14576

Hebbeln D et al. (2019) The fate of cold-water corals in a changing world: a geological perspective. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 119

Hennige SJ et al. (2020) Crumbling reefs and cold-water coral habitat loss in a future ocean: evidence of "coralporosis" as an indicator of habitat integrity. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 668

Henry L-A et al. (2018) Ocean sprawl facilitates dispersal and connectivity of protected species. Scientific Reports 8: 11346

Houpert L et al. (2018) Structure and transport of the North Atlantic Current in the eastern subpolar gyre from sustained glider observations. Journal of Geophysical Research 123: 6019–6038

Houpert L et al. (2020) Observed variability of the North Atlantic Current in the Rockall Trough from 4 years of mooring measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 125: e2020JC016403

Howell KL et al. (2019) A framework for the development of a global standardised marine taxon reference image database (SMarTaR-ID) to support image-based analyses. PLoS ONE 14: e0218904

Hynes S et al. (2020) The impact of nature documentaries on public environmental preferences and willingness to pay: entropy balancing and the blue planet II effect. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Hynes S et al. (2021) Entropy balancing in discrete choice analysis: The Blue Planet II effect. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.

Ison S et al. (2021) Tourist preferences for seamount conservation in the Galapagos Marine Reserve. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 602767

Johnson C et al. (2020) Significance of climate indices to benthic conditions across the Northern North Atlantic and adjacent shelf seas. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 2

Johnson DE (2019) Protecting the lost city hydrothermal vent system: All is not lost, or is it? Marine Policy 107: 103593

Johnson DE et al. (2018) Climate change is likely to severely limit the effectiveness of deep-sea ABMTs in the North Atlantic. Marine Policy 87: 111-122

Johnson DE, Kenchington EL (2019) Should potential for climate change refugia be mainstreamed into the criteria for describing EBSAs? Conservation Letters 12: e12634.

Johnson DE et al. (2019) Rockall and Hatton: resolving a super wicked marine governance problem in the high seas of the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 69.

Johnson DE et al. (2019) Securing effective and equitable coverage of marine protected areas: The UK's progress towards achieving Convention on Biological Diversity commitments and lessons learned for the way forward. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 29: 181-194

van der Kaaden A et al. (2020) Spatial self-organization as a new perspective on cold-water coral mound development. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 631

Kazanidis G et al. (2018) Unravelling the versatile feeding and metabolic strategies of the cold-water ecosystem engineer Spongosorites coralliophaga (Stephens, 1915). Deep-Sea Research Part I 141: 71-82

Kazanidis G et al. (2019) Distribution of deep-sea sponge aggregations in an area of multisectoral activities and changing oceanic conditions. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 163

Kazanidis G et al. (2020) Assessing the environmental status of selected North Atlantic deep-sea ecosystems. Ecological Indicators 119: 106624

Kazanidis G et al. (2021) Hidden structural heterogeneity enhances marine hotspots’ biodiversity. Coral Reefs

La Beur L et al. (2019) Baseline assessment of marine litter and microplastic ingestion by cold-water coral reef benthos at the East Mingulay Marine Protected Area (Sea of the Hebrides, Western Scotland). Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 80

Levin L et al. (2019) Global observing needs in the deep ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 241

Levin L et al. (2020) Climate change considerations are fundamental to management of deep-sea resource extraction. Global Change Biology 26: 4664-4678

Long R, Chaves MR (2015) Anatomy of a new international instrument for marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction: First impressions of the preparatory process. Environmental Liability - Law, Policy and Practice 6: 213-228

Lozier MS et al. (2019) A sea change in our view of overturning in the subpolar North Atlantic. Science 363: 516-521

Morato T et al. (2018) A multi-criteria assessment method for identifying Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the North-East Atlantic. Frontiers in Marine Science 5: 460

Morato T et al. (2020) Climate‐induced changes in the suitable habitat of cold‐water corals and commercially important deep‐sea fishes in the North Atlantic. Global Change Biology 26: 2181-2202

Morato T et al. (2020) Editorial: The Azores marine ecosystem: An open window into North Atlantic open ocean and deep-sea environments. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 601798

Morato T et al. (2021) North Atlantic basin-scale multi-criteria assessment database to inform effective management and protection of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems. Frontiers in Marine Science 8: 637078

Mosquera Gimenez A et al. (2019) Ocean circulation over North Atlantic underwater features in the path of the Mediterranean Outflow Water: The Ormonde and Formigas Seamounts, and the Gazul Mud Volcano. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 702

Murray F et al. (2018) Data challenges and opportunities for environmental management of North Sea oil and gas decommissioning in an era of blue growth. Marine Policy 97: 130-138

Niner HJ et al. (2018) Deep-sea mining with no net loss of biodiversity - an impossible aim. Frontiers in Marine Science 5: 53

Orejas C, Jiménez C (2017) The builders of the oceans – Part I: Coral architecture from the tropics to the poles, from the shallow to the deep. In: Rossi S, Bramanti L, Gori A, Orejas C (eds) Marine Animal Forests. Springer International Publishing, p 627-655

Orejas C, Jiménez C (2019) An introduction to the research on Mediterranean cold-water corals. In: Orejas C, Jiménez C (eds) Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future, Coral Reefs of the World 9. Springer International Publishing AG, p 3-12

Orejas C et al. (2019) Cold-water coral in aquaria: advances and challenges. A focus on the Mediterranean. In: Orejas C, Jiménez C (eds) Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future, Coral Reefs of the World 9. Springer International Publishing, p 435-582

Orejas C et al. (2020) Towards a common approach to the assessment of the environmental status of deep-sea ecosystems in areas beyond national jurisdiction. Marine Policy 104182

Palomino D et al. (2016) Evidencias de expulsión de fluidos en el complejo Hespérides en el talud medio del Golfo de Cádiz. Geotemas 16: 327-330

Petit T et al. (2020) Atlantic Deep Water formation occurs primarily in the Iceland Basin and Irminger Sea by local buoyancy forcing. Geophysical Research Letters 47: e2020GL091028

Puerta P et al. (2020) Influence of water masses on the biodiversity and biogeography of deep-sea benthic ecosystems in the North Atlantic. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 239

Rakka M et al (2019) First description of polyp bail-out in cold-water octocorals under aquaria maintenance. Coral Reefs 38: 15-20

Rakka M et al (2020) Feeding biology of a habitat-forming antipatharian in the Azores Archipelago. Coral Reefs.

Ramalho LV et al. (2018) Three species of Reteporella (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) in a diapiric and mud volcano field of the Gulf of Cádiz, with the description of Reteporella victori n. sp. Zootaxa 4375: 90-104

Ramalho LV et al. (2020) Bryozoa from deep-sea habitats of the northern Gulf of Cadiz (Northeastern Atlantic). Zootaxa 4768: 451-478

Ramalho LV et al. (2020) Bryozoans from Chella Bank (Seco de los Olivos), with the description of a new species and some new records for the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Biodiversity 50: 106

Ramiro-Sánchez B et al. (2019) Characterization and mapping of a deep-sea sponge ground on the Tropic Seamount (Northeast Tropical Atlantic): Implications for spatial management in the High Seas. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 278

Rodil IF et al. (2019) Towards a sampling design for characterizing habitat-specific benthic biodiversity related to oxygen flux dynamics using Aquatic Eddy Covariance. PLoS ONE 14: e0211673

Rogers AD (2018) The biology of seamounts: 25 Years on. Advances in Marine Biology 79: 137-224.

Rogers AD (2019) Threats to seamount ecosystems and their management. In: Sheppard C (ed) World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation, Vol III: Ecological Issues and Environmental Impacts. Elsevier Ltd, p 427-451

Rossi S et al. (2017) Animal forests of the world: An overview. In: Rossi S, Bramanti L, Gori A, Orejas C (eds) Marine Animal Forests. Springer International Publishing, p 1-28

Rovelli L et al. (2017) Reach-scale river metabolism across contrasting sub-catchment geologies: Effect of light and hydrology. Limnology and Oceanography 62: S381-S399

Rovelli L et al. (2018) Headwater gas exchange quantified from O₂ mass balances at the reach scale. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 16: 696-709

Rovelli L et al. (2019) Benthic primary production and respiration of shallow rocky habitats: a case study from South Bay (Doumer Island, Western Antarctic Peninsula) Polar Biology 42: 1459–1474

Rueda JL et al. (2019) Cold-water coral associated fauna in the Mediterranean Sea and adjacent areas. In: Orejas C, Jiménez C (eds) Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future, Coral Reefs of the World 9. Springer International Publishing, p 295-333

Sampaio Í et al. (2016) New name for the soft coral Alcyonium rubrum Stokvis & van Ofwegen, 2006 (Alcyonacea, Alcyoniidae): Alcyonium burmedju nom. n. ZooKeys 619: 163-165.

Sampaio Í et al. (2019) Census of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of the Azores (NE Atlantic) with a nomenclature update. Zootaxa 4550: 451-498.

Sampaio Í et al. (2019) Natural history collections as a basis for sound biodiversity assessments: Plexauridae (Octocorallia, Holaxonia) of the Naturalis CANCAP and Tyro Mauritania II expeditions. Zookeys 870: 1-32

Schulz K et al. (2020) Linking large-scale circulation patterns to the distribution of cold water corals along the eastern Rockall Bank (northeast Atlantic). Journal of Marine Systems 212: 103456

Smith CR et al. (2020) Deep-sea misconceptions cause underestimation of seabed-mining impacts. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 35: 853-857

Smith CR et al. (2021) Environmental protection requires accurate application of scientific evidence. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36: 14-15

Soetaert K et al. (2016) Ecosystem engineering creates a direct nutritional link between 600-m deep cold-water coral mounds and surface productivity. Scientific Reports 6: 35057

Spooner P et al. (2020) Exceptional 20th century ocean circulation in the Northeast Atlantic. Geophysical Research Letters 47: e2020GL087577.

Stefanoudis P et al. (2019) Depth-dependent structuring of reef fish assemblages from the shallows to the rariphotic zone. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 939

Stefanoudis P et al. (2019) Low connectivity between shallow, mesophotic and rariphotic zone benthos. Royal Society Open Science 6: 190958

Stefanoudis P et al. (2019) Changes in zooplankton communities from epipelagic to lower mesophotic waters. Marine Environmental Research 146: 1-11

Stratmann T et al. (2020) The BenBioDen database, a global database for meio-, macro- and megabenthic biomass and densities. Scientific Data 7: 206

Sweetman A et al. (2017) Major impacts of climate change on deep-sea benthic ecosystems. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 5: 4

Taylor ML, Roterman CN (2017) Invertebrate population genetics across Earth's largest habitat: The deep-sea floor. Molecular Ecology 26: 4872–4896

Thornalley DJR et al. (2018) Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years. Nature 556: 227-230

Tinch R (2018) Debating nature’s value: The role of monetary valuation.. In: Anderson V (ed) Debating Nature’s Value. Springer, p 39-47

Tinch R et al. (2019) Economic valuation of ecosystem goods and services: a review for decision makers. Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy 8: 359-378

Urra J et al. (2021) Deep-sea habitat characterization using acoustic data and underwater imagery in Gazul mud volcano (Gulf of Cádiz, NE Atlantic). Deep-Sea Research Part I 169: 103458

Utrilla O et al. (2020) Molluscs from benthic habitats of the Gazul mud volcano (Gulf of Cadiz). Scientia Marina 84

Vad J et al. (2017) Assessing the living and dead proportions of cold-water coral colonies: implications for deep-water Marine Protected Area monitoring in a changing ocean. PeerJ 5: e3705

Vad J et al. (2018) Potential impacts of offshore oil and gas activities on deep-sea sponges and the habitats they form. Advances in Marine Biology 79: 33-60

Vad J et al. (2020) Environmental controls and anthropogenic impacts on deep-sea sponge grounds in the Faroe-Shetland Channel, NE Atlantic: the importance of considering spatial scale to distinguish drivers of change. ICES Journal of Marine Science 77: 451-461

Vad J et al. (2020) Soaking up the oil: Biological impacts of dispersants and crude oil on the sponge Halichondria panicea. Chemosphere 257: 127109

Van den Beld IMJ et al. (2017) Cold-water coral habitats in submarine canyons of the Bay of Biscay. Frontiers in Marine Science 4: 117

Van Der Grient J, Rogers AD (2019) Habitat structure as an alternative explanation for body-size patterns in the deep sea. Ecosphere 10: e02900

Van Dover CL et al. (2018) Scientific rationale and international obligations for protection of active hydrothermal vent ecosystems from deep-sea mining. Marine Policy 90: 20-28

Van der Kaaden A et al. (2020) Spatial self-organization as a new perspective on cold-water coral mound development. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 631

Van Engeland T et al. (2019) Cabled ocean observatory data reveal food supply mechanisms to a cold-water coral reef. Progress in Oceanography 172: 51-64

Van Haren H et al. (2019) Internal wave observations off Saba bank. Frontiers in Marine Science 5: 528

Van Oevelen et al. (2018) Niche overlap between a cold-water coral and an associated sponge for isotopically-enriched particulate food sources. PLoS ONE 13: e0194659

Woodall et al. (2018) A multidisciplinary approach for generating globally consistent data on mesophotic, deep-pelagic, and bathyal biological communities. Oceanography 31: 76-89

Wright G et al. (2018) Marine spatial planning in areas beyond national jurisdiction. IDDRI ISSUE BRIEF 8

Wright G et al. (2019) Marine spatial planning in areas beyond national jurisdiction. Marine Policy

Xuan BB et al. (2021) Valuing high seas ecosystem conservation. Conservation Biology

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