Biodiversity's Big Wet Secret: The Global Distribution of Marine Biological Records Reveals Chronic Under-Exploration of the Deep Pelagic Ocean

Thomas J. Webb; Edward Vanden Berghe; Ron O'Dor

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010223

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Biodiversity's Big Wet Secret: The Global Distribution of Marine Biological Records Reveals Chronic Under-Exploration of the Deep Pelagic Ocean

Thomas J. Webb ,

* E-mail: t.j.webb@sheffield.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Edward Vanden Berghe,

Affiliation Ocean Biogeographic Information System, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
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Ron O'Dor

Affiliation Census of Marine Life, Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Washington, D. C., United States of America
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Biodiversity's Big Wet Secret: The Global Distribution of Marine Biological Records Reveals Chronic Under-Exploration of the Deep Pelagic Ocean

Thomas J. Webb,
Edward Vanden Berghe,
Ron O'Dor

Published: August 2, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010223

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Hits the nail on the head

Posted by Magnus on 18 Aug 2010 at 16:09 GMT

Webb et al point out a worrying absence of study of the pelagic realm that goes beyond just studies of biodiversity. Apart from krill I would argue that there is a gaping hole in our understanding of the way in which the ecologi of our planetary buffer functions.

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