Habitat mapping for the deep-sea megafauna around cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts in the Xufu Guyot of the northwestern Pacific

Yorisue, Takefumi

Habitat mapping for the deep-sea megafauna around cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts in the Xufu Guyot of the northwestern Pacific

Takefumi Yorisue^1,2, Akira Iguchi², Ryuichi Miwa³, Nozomu Iwasaki⁴, Hideki Sugishima⁵, Yuichiro Tanaka², Junpei Minatoya⁶, Shogo Kato⁶, Yoshiaki Igarashi⁶, Nobuyuki Okamoto⁶ and Atsushi Suzuki⁷, (1)Tohoku University, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Onagawa, Japan, (2)National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan, (3)Kaiyo Engineering Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, (4)Rissho University, Kumagaya, Japan, (5)IDEA Co., Ltd., Yaizu, Japan, (6)Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), Tokyo, Japan, (7)AIST, Tsukuba, Japan