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Investigating Patterns of Deep Sea Coral and Sponge Diversity and Abundance Across Multiple Spatial Scales in the Central Pacific.

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Title/Author:	Investigating Patterns of Deep Sea Coral and Sponge Diversity and Abundance Across Multiple Spatial Scales in the Central Pacific./
Author:	Kennedy, Brian R. C.
Description:	1 online resource (223 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-05B.
Subject:	Ecology. -
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ISBN:	9798380719629

Investigating Patterns of Deep Sea Coral and Sponge Diversity and Abundance Across Multiple Spatial Scales in the Central Pacific.
Kennedy, Brian R. C.

Investigating Patterns of Deep Sea Coral and Sponge Diversity and Abundance Across Multiple Spatial Scales in the Central Pacific. - 1 online resource (223 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

The deep sea is the largest ecosystem on the planet, comprising more than 90% of the volume that life can inhabit, yet it is the least explored biome in the world. The deep sea includes the benthos, which makes up 91.5 % of all the seafloor globally, and the water column deeper than 200 meters. It hosts a wealth of ecosystems including deep-sea vents, seamount coral gardens, abyssal plains, high-productivity whale falls, and life even in the deepest trenches. We now understand that all of these ecosystems host a variety of habitats, each with their own ecology and unique species. These ecosystems and habitats- and their associated biodiversity- provide essential ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, nutrient regeneration, microbial processes detoxification, fisheries provisioning, and many others. However, despite the uniqueness of these ecosystems and the importance of the services they provide, we still know far less about them than we do about their shallow water and terrestrial counterparts. In this dissertation, I contribute new insights about the patterns of biodiversity in the Pacific Ocean across a large geographic area, and across a wide range of depths. To that end, in Chapter 1, I have used one of the largest ocean exploration datasets to look for patterns of the abundance and diversity across the most common benthic invertebrate families found on Pacific seamounts: Anthozoa, Porifera, and Echinodermata across the Central and Western Pacific. In addition to quantifying the diversity and abundance of known taxa, I also documented patterns of as-of-yet unidentified taxa by region, depth, and deepwater feature (seamount shape). Building on patterns associated with seamount shape that were described in Chapter 2, I focused on the effect of seamount shape on the diversity and abundance of deep-sea coral communities in Chapter 3. The analysis presented in Chapter 3 provides strong support for the novel hypothesis that gross seamount morphology is a significant driver of community composition. In Chapter 4, I focused on a single seamount to investigate biodiversity and abundance of coral and sponge taxa on a finer spatial scale, examining the role of direction (N, S, E, W) on different flanks of a single equatorial seamount. This analysis yielded interesting consistent patterns of zonation on all sides of the seamount in terms of depth, but with differences in abundance patterns on each flank for individual taxa. Finally, in Chapter 5, I took a global perspective to investigate gaps in deepwater data, with the goal of determining what regions need further exploration to conclusively determine patterns of deep-sea biodiversity, which will be critical for determining the health of deepwater ecosystems under climate change conditions with increased exploitation pressure and co-occuring with increased conservation efforts. Merging Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) records with the largest collection of deep submergence dive records ever collected, I used proposed biogeographic provinces schema to identify areas with the least supporting data. Additionally, I coupled records from OBIS with climate change projections to identify the areas with the fewest number of biodiversity records that are likely to change the fastest under different IPCC projections. These areas of low number of records and high likelihood of change by the end of the century should become priority targets for future exploration. Taken together, this dissertation provides valuable insights and generates new hypotheses about patterns and drivers of deep-sea biodiversity, and puts forth recommendations for future research and exploration efforts.

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2024

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