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List of works by Craig R. Smith

A New US Polar Research Vessel for the Twenty-First Century

scientific article published in 2012

A comparative analysis of vertebrate sex determination

scientific article

A large population of king crabs in Palmer Deep on the west Antarctic Peninsula shelf and potential invasive impacts

scientific article published on 7 September 2011

A large testate protist, Gromia sphaerica sp. nov. (Order Filosea), from the bathyal Arabian Sea

A strategy for the conservation of biodiversity on mid-ocean ridges from deep-sea mining.

scientific article published on 4 July 2018

Abyssal fauna of the UK-1 polymetallic nodule exploration area, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Cnidaria

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Abyssal fauna of the UK-1 polymetallic nodule exploration claim, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Echinodermata

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Abyssal food limitation, ecosystem structure and climate change

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Antarctic ecosystem responses following ice‐shelf collapse and iceberg calving: Science review and future research

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Antarctic ecosystems in transition - life between stresses and opportunities

scientific article published on 22 December 2020

Ashallow-waterwhale-fall experiment in the north Atlantic

Biodiversity change after climate-induced ice-shelf collapse in the Antarctic

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Biodiversity of nematode assemblages from the region of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, an area of commercial mining interest

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Biological responses to disturbance from simulated deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining.

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Biotic and human vulnerability to projected changes in ocean biogeochemistry over the 21st century

scientific article published on 15 October 2013

Bone-eating worms from the Antarctic: the contrasting fate of whale and wood remains on the Southern Ocean seafloor

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2013)

Circumpolar Deep Water Impacts Glacial Meltwater Export and Coastal Biogeochemical Cycling Along the West Antarctic Peninsula

Cold seep epifaunal communities on the Hikurangi margin, New Zealand: composition, succession, and vulnerability to human activities.

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Comparative composition, diversity and trophic ecology of sediment macrofauna at vents, seeps and organic falls

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Contrasting Modes of Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in Sister Taxa of Wood-Eating Marine Bivalves (Teredinidae and Xylophagaidae)

scientific article published in 2022

Data are inadequate to test whale falls as chemosynthetic stepping-stones using network analysis: faunal overlaps do support a stepping-stone role.

scientific article published in September 2017

Deep-Sea Mining With No Net Loss of Biodiversity—An Impossible Aim

scientific article published in March 2018

Deep-Sea Misconceptions Cause Underestimation of Seabed-Mining Impacts

scientific article published on 31 July 2020

Deep-sea biodiversity: a tribute to Robert R. Hessler

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Defining “serious harm” to the marine environment in the context of deep-seabed mining

scholarly article by Lisa A. Levin published in December 2016

Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life

Ecological variables for developing a global deep-ocean monitoring and conservation strategy

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Effect of diets on the feeding behavior and physiological properties of suspension-feeding sea cucumber Cucumaria frondosa

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Environment, ecology, and potential effectiveness of an area protected from deep-sea mining (Clarion Clipperton Zone, abyssal Pacific)

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Environmental Influences on Regional Deep-Sea Species Diversity

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Environmental Protection Requires Accurate Application of Scientific Evidence

scientific article published on 13 November 2020

Evidence ofOsedaxworm borings in Pliocene (∼3 Ma) whale bone from the Mediterranean

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Fauna of whale falls: systematics and ecology of a new polychaete (Annelida: Chrysopetalidae) from the deep Pacific Ocean

Faunal succession on replicate deep-sea whale falls: time scales and vent-seep affinities

article published in 2002

Fecundity and embryo development of three Antarctic deep-water scleractinians: Flabellum thouarsii, F. curvatum and F. impensum

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Food web structure in exotic and native mangroves: a Hawaii-Puerto Rico comparison

scientific article published on 22 June 2007

From the Surface to the Deep-Sea: Bacterial Distributions across Polymetallic Nodule Fields in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean

scientific article published on 8 September 2017

Giant, highly diverse protists in the abyssal Pacific: vulnerability to impacts from seabed mining and potential for recovery

scientific article published on 25 November 2020

Global Observing Needs in the Deep Ocean

Habitat filtering of bacterial communities above polymetallic nodule fields and sediments in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean

scientific article published on 6 February 2018

High Abundance of the Epibenthic Trachymedusa Ptychogastria polaris Allman, 1878 (Hydrozoa, Trachylina) in Subpolar Fjords along the West Antarctic Peninsula

scientific article (publication date: 2017)

Implications of population connectivity studies for the design of marine protected areas in the deep sea: An example of a demosponge from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

scientific article published in 2018

Initial characterization of cold seep faunal communities on the New Zealand Hikurangi margin

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Insights into the abundance and diversity of abyssal megafauna in a polymetallic-nodule region in the eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone

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Larval assemblages over the abyssal plain in the Pacific are highly diverse and spatially patchy

scientific article published on 26 September 2019

Major impacts of climate change on deep-sea benthic ecosystems

scholarly article by Andrew K. Sweetman et al published 23 February 2017 in Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

Man and the last great wilderness: human impact on the deep sea.

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Megafauna of the UKSRL exploration contract area and eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean: Annelida, Arthropoda, Bryozoa, Chordata, Ctenophora, Mollusca.

scientific article published on 14 August 2017

Megafauna of the UKSRL exploration contract area and eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean: Echinodermata

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Megafaunal communities in rapidly warming fjords along the West Antarctic Peninsula: hotspots of abundance and beta diversity

scientific article published on 03 December 2013

Microbial ecology of deep-sea sunken wood: quantitative measurements of bacterial biomass and cellulolytic activities

scientific article published in 2006

Modern Antarctic acorn worms form tubes

scientific article published in January 2013

Molecular taxonomy of Osedax (Annelida: Siboglinidae) in the Southern Ocean

scholarly article by Diva J. Amon et al published 14 May 2014 in Zoologica Scripta

Morphology, reproductive biology and genetic structure of the whale-fall and hydrothermal vent specialist, Bathykurila guaymasensisPettibone, 1989 (Annelida: Polynoidae)

scientific article published in 2005

Multiple introns in a deep-sea Annelid (Decemunciger: Ampharetidae) mitochondrial genome

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Near-island biological hotspots in barren ocean basins.

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New Prionospio and Aurospio Species from the Deep Sea (Annelida: Polychaeta)

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Observations of organic falls from the abyssal Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean

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On the role of bone-eating worms in the degradation of marine vertebrate remains

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Opinion: Midwater ecosystems must be considered when evaluating environmental risks of deep-sea mining

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Patterns of eukaryotic diversity from the surface to the deep-ocean sediment

scientific article published on 04 February 2022

Pelagic-Benthic Coupling, Food Banks, and Climate Change on the West Antarctic Peninsula Shelf

scholarly article by Craig Smith et al published 1 September 2012 in Oceanography

Phylogenetic and functional affinities between whale-fall, seep and vent chemoautotrophic communities

Rapid scavenging of jellyfish carcasses reveals the importance of gelatinous material to deep-sea food webs

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Reply to: Ecological variables for deep-ocean monitoring must include microbiota and meiofauna for effective conservation

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

Report of the workshop Evaluating the nature of midwater mining plumes and their potential effects on midwater ecosystems

scientific article published on 6 February 2019

Species-energy relationships in deep-sea molluscs

scientific article (publication date: 23 October 2011)

Submarine canyons: hotspots of benthic biomass and productivity in the deep sea.

scientific article published on 5 May 2010

Systematics and biodiversity ofOphryotrocha(Annelida, Dorvilleidae) with descriptions of six new species from deep-sea whale-fall and wood-fall habitats in the north-east Pacific

scientific article published in 2012

The Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica (LARISSA): Polar Systems Bound Together, Changing Fast

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The London Workshop on the Biogeography and Connectivity of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

scholarly article by Adrian Glover et al published 16 September 2016 in Research Ideas and Outcomes

The Southern Ocean ecosystem under multiple climate change stresses--an integrated circumpolar assessment.

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The deep-sea floor ecosystem: current status and prospects of anthropogenic change by the year 2025

scholarly article by Adrian G. Glover published in September 2003

The heterogeneous abyss

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

The morphological diversity of Osedax worm borings (Annelida: Siboglinidae)

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Two new species of Sympagella (Porifera: Hexactinellida: Rossellidae) collected from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, East Pacific

scientific article published in 2018

Using Radiocarbon to Assess the Abundance, Distribution, and Nature of Labile Organic Carbon in Marine Sediments

scientific article published in 2021

Whale-fall ecosystems: recent insights into ecology, paleoecology, and evolution.

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Whales as marine ecosystem engineers

scholarly article by Joe Roman published in September 2014

World-wide whale worms? A new species of Osedax from the shallow north Atlantic

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Xenophyophores (Rhizaria, Foraminifera), including four new species and two new genera, from the western Clarion-Clipperton Zone (abyssal equatorial Pacific)

scientific article published on 04 June 2020

Benthic megafauna of the western Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean

scientific article published on 18 July 2022