Opinion: Midwater ecosystems must be considered when evaluating environmental risks of deep-sea mining
Despite rapidly growing interest in deep-sea mineral exploitation, environmental research and management have focused on impacts to seafloor environments, paying little attention to pelagic ecosystems. Nonetheless, research indicates that seafloor mining will generate sediment plumes and noise at th...
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National Academy of Sciences
2020
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126624 |