Benthic ecosystem functioning across the deep seafloor biome of the western Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a deep-sea mining region.

Marta Maria Cecchetto1, Annabell Moser1, Dick van Oevelen2, Clayton Magill1, Kristina Peterson1, Craig R Smith3 and Andrew K Sweetman1, (1)Heriot-Watt University, Lyell Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (2)NIOZ, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, Yerseke, Netherlands, (3)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States