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The evolutionary origins of abyssal biodiversity — new ideas from biogeography and habitat mapping
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2018
unpublished
The abyss is a homogeneous and barrier-free sediment habitat. At least that is what the text books say. Yet, at the same time we know that abyssal communities are locally highly diverse. It appears contradictory that a seafloor habitat free of barriers and poor in heterogeneity can host a rich biodiversity. Likewise the evolutionary origins of this diversity remain in the dark, although it has been proposed that the organisms we encounter at abyssal depth originated from the much more
doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.26845v1
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