List of works - Ashley Rowden

A Southern Hemisphere bathyal fauna is distributed in latitudinal bands.

scientific article

A new record of Lamellibrachia columna (Siboglinidae, Annelida) from cold seeps off New Zealand, and an assessment of its presence in the western Pacific Ocean

scientific article published on 18 June 2019

A new species of Arenallianassa (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) from hydrothermal vents with notes on its ecology and a redescription of Arenallianassa arenosa (Poore, 1975) ⬇️

A primer for the Environmental Impact Assessment of mining at seafloor massive sulfide deposits

article

A quantitative technique for sampling motile macroinvertebrates in beds of the seagrass <i>Posidonia oceanica</i> (L.) Delile

scientific article published in 2002

A test of the seamount oasis hypothesis: seamounts support higher epibenthic megafaunal biomass than adjacent slopes

scientific article published on 10 May 2010

Abundance - occupancy relationships in macrofauna on exposed sandy beaches: patterns and mechanisms

scientific article published in 2004

Are macroinvertebrate communities influenced by seagrass structural complexity?

scientific article published on 18 August 2010

Assessing the ecological risk to deep-sea megafaunal assemblages from seafloor massive sulfide mining using a functional traits sensitivity approach

scientific article published on 23 June 2021

Bait-attending amphipods of the Tonga Trench and depth-stratified population structure in the scavenging amphipod Dahl, 1959

scientific article published on 07 December 2018

Biogeography, Ecology, and Vulnerability of Chemosynthetic Ecosystems in the Deep Sea

article

CenSeam, an International Program on Seamounts within the Census of Marine Life: achievements and lessons learned

scientific article

Challenges for the conservation of marine small natural features

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

scientific article

Cold-water coral habitats on seamounts: do they have a specialist fauna?

scientific article published in 2008

Community structure and diversity of scavenging amphipods from bathyal to hadal depths in three South Pacific Trenches

scientific article

Comparison between infaunal communities of the deep floor and edge of the Tonga Trench: Possible effects of differences in organic matter supply

scholarly article by Daniel Leduc published in October 2016

Compositional patterns of benthic assemblages on the northwestern Ross Sea shelf, Antarctica: interacting environmental drivers operating at multiple spatial scales

article

Data Analysis Considerations

Deep-Sea Fauna

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

scholarly article by Lisa A. Levin published in December 2016

Determining Coral Density Thresholds for Identifying Structurally Complex Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the Deep Sea

scientific article published in 2020

Development of a Seafloor Community Classification for the New Zealand Region Using a Gradient Forest Approach

scientific article published on 14 January 2022

Development of an ecologic marine classification in the new zealand region.

scientific article

Differences in meiofauna communities with sediment depth are greater than habitat effects on the New Zealand continental margin: implications for vulnerability to anthropogenic disturbance

scientific article published on 05 July 2016

Distribution, Source, and Burial of Sedimentary Organic Carbon in Kermadec and Atacama Trenches

scientific article published in 2021

Earthquakes drive large-scale submarine canyon development and sediment supply to deep-ocean basins

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Echinoid associations with coral habitats differ with taxon in the deep sea and the influence of other echinoids, depth, and fishing history on their distribution

scientific article published on 02 February 2018

Ecological Role of Submarine Canyons and Need for Canyon Conservation: A Review

article

Effect of biodeposits from mussel culture on macroinvertebrate assemblages at sites of different hydrodynamic regime

scientific article published in June 2004

Effect of habitat fragmentation on the macroinvertebrate infaunal communities associated with the seagrass Zostera marina L

Examining the utility of a decision-support tool to develop spatial management options for the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems on the high seas around New Zealand

scientific article published in March 2019

Fine-Scale Mapping of Mega-Epibenthic Communities and Their Patch Characteristics on Two New Zealand Seamounts

scientific article published in 2021

Focused fluid seepage related to variations in accretionary wedge structure, Hikurangi margin, New Zealand

scholarly article

Habitat Differences in Deep-Sea Megafaunal Communities off New Zealand: Implications for Vulnerability to Anthropogenic Disturbance and Management

article

Habitat-forming bryozoans in New Zealand: their known and predicted distribution in relation to broad-scale environmental variables and fishing effort

scientific article

Hadal trenches are dynamic hotspots for early diagenesis in the deep sea

scientific article

Identifying Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas (EBSA): A systematic method and its application to seamounts in the South Pacific Ocean

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

article

Is there a link between deep-sea biodiversity and ecosystem function?

scientific article published in 2013

Key Ecological Function Peaks at the Land–Ocean Transition Zone When Vertebrate Scavengers Concentrate on Ocean Beaches

scientific article published in 2019

Large-scale environmental influences on the benthic macroinfauna of the southern Gulf of Mexico

scientific article published in 2003

Latitudinal diversity patterns in estuarine tidal flats: indications of a global cline

scientific article published in 2001

Life on Seamounts

Limitations in the Use of Archived Vent Mussel Samples to Assess Genetic Connectivity Among Seafloor Massive Sulfide Deposits: A Case Study with Implications for Environmental Management

article by Rachel E. Boschen et al published 8 December 2015 in Frontiers in Marine Science

Little Evidence of Benthic Community Resilience to Bottom Trawling on Seamounts After 15 Years

scientific article published in 2019

Long-term effects of a toxic algal bloom on subtidal soft-sediment macroinvertebrate communities in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand

article

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

scientific article

Marine fish may be biochemically constrained from inhabiting the deepest ocean depths

scientific article

Methane seepage along the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand: Overview of studies in 2006 and 2007 and new evidence from visual, bathymetric and hydroacoustic investigations

article

Mining of deep-sea seafloor massive sulfides: A review of the deposits, their benthic communities, impacts from mining, regulatory frameworks and management strategies

article

Nematode beta diversity on the continental slope of New Zealand: spatial patterns and environmental drivers

scientific article published on 21 May 2012

Nematode communities in sediments of the Kermadec Trench, Southwest Pacific Ocean

scholarly article published in April 2018

New sponge species from hydrothermal vent and cold seep sites off New Zealand

scientific article

Novel Application of a Compound-Specific Stable Isotope (CSSI) Tracking Technique Demonstrates Connectivity Between Terrestrial and Deep-Sea Ecosystems via Submarine Canyons

scientific article published in 2020

Out of their depth? Isolated deep populations of the cosmopolitan coral Desmophyllum dianthus may be highly vulnerable to environmental change

scientific article published on 18 May 2011

Paradigms in seamount ecology: fact, fiction and future

scientific article published in 2010

Patterns of deep-sea genetic connectivity in the New Zealand region: implications for management of benthic ecosystems.

scientific article

Polychaete assemblages of the northwestern Ross Sea shelf: worming out the environmental drivers of Antarctic macrobenthic assemblage composition

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Population Structure and Genetic Connectivity of Squat Lobsters (Munida Leach, 1820) Associated With Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the Southwest Pacific Ocean

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

Population genetic structure and connectivity of deep-sea stony corals (Order Scleractinia) in the New Zealand region: Implications for the conservation and management of vulnerable marine ecosystems.

scientific article published on 20 July 2017

Predicting global habitat suitability for stony corals on seamounts

Predicting the effects of climate change on deep‐water coral distribution around New Zealand—Will there be suitable refuges for protection at the end of the 21st century?

scientific article published in 2022

Regional and sediment depth differences in nematode community structure greater than between habitats on the New Zealand margin: Implications for vulnerability to anthropogenic disturbance

scientific article published in January 2018

Resilience of seamount benthic communities to trawling disturbance

scientific article published on 25 July 2020

Review and syntheses: Impacts of turbidity flows on deep-sea benthic communities

scientific article published in 2021

Review of recent trends in ecological studies of deep-sea meiofauna, with focus on patterns and processes at small to regional spatial scales

scientific article published in 2017

Science priorities for seamounts: research links to conservation and management

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Seafloor massive sulfide deposits support unique megafaunal assemblages: Implications for seabed mining and conservation.

scientific article published on 13 February 2016

Seamount benthos in a cobalt-rich crust region of the central Pacific: conservation challenges for future seabed mining

scientific article published in 2013

Seamount science scales undersea mountains: new research and outlook

scientific article published in 2010

Sediment Accumulation and Carbon Burial in Four Hadal Trench Systems

scientific article published in 2022

Spatial variability of prokaryotic and viral abundances in the Kermadec and Atacama Trench regions

Species-specific genetic variation in response to deep-sea environmental variation amongst Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem indicator taxa

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Squat lobster assemblages on seamounts differ from some, but not all, deep-sea habitats of comparable depth

scientific article published in 2010

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

scientific article published on 5 May 2010

The Cook Strait Canyon, New Zealand

article

The complete mitochondrial genome of the deep-sea stony coral Solenosmilia variabilis (Scleractinia, Caryophylliidae) and its inter-individual variation.

scientific article

The distribution of benthic biomass in hadal trenches: A modelling approach to investigate the effect of vertical and lateral organic matter transport to the seafloor

article

The ecology of seamounts: structure, function, and human impacts.

scientific article

The effects of submarine canyons and the oxygen minimum zone on deep-sea fish assemblages off Hawai'i

scientific article published on 08 February 2012

The fox and the beach: Coastal landscape topography and urbanisation predict the distribution of carnivores at the edge of the sea

scientific article published on 07 May 2020

The hadal zone is an important and heterogeneous sink of black carbon in the ocean

scholarly article

The impact of encroachment and bankside development on the habitat complexity and supralittoral invertebrate communities of the Thames Estuary foreshore

The use of spatially explicit genetic variation data from four deep-sea sponges to inform the protection of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems

scientific article published on 02 April 2019

Unimodal relationship between biomass and species richness of deep-sea nematodes: implications for the link between productivity and diversity

scientific article published in 2012

Using Gradient Forests to summarize patterns in species turnover across large spatial scales and inform conservation planning

scientific article published on 22 June 2018

Volcaniclastic density currents explain widespread and diverse seafloor impacts of the 2022 Hunga Volcano eruption

scientific article published on 30 November 2023

List of works by Ashley Rowden

A Southern Hemisphere bathyal fauna is distributed in latitudinal bands.

A new record of Lamellibrachia columna (Siboglinidae, Annelida) from cold seeps off New Zealand, and an assessment of its presence in the western Pacific Ocean

A new species of Arenallianassa (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) from hydrothermal vents with notes on its ecology and a redescription of Arenallianassa arenosa (Poore, 1975) ⬇️

A primer for the Environmental Impact Assessment of mining at seafloor massive sulfide deposits

A quantitative technique for sampling motile macroinvertebrates in beds of the seagrass &lt;i&gt;Posidonia oceanica&lt;/i&gt; (L.) Delile

A test of the seamount oasis hypothesis: seamounts support higher epibenthic megafaunal biomass than adjacent slopes

Abundance - occupancy relationships in macrofauna on exposed sandy beaches: patterns and mechanisms

Are macroinvertebrate communities influenced by seagrass structural complexity?

Assessing the ecological risk to deep-sea megafaunal assemblages from seafloor massive sulfide mining using a functional traits sensitivity approach

Bait-attending amphipods of the Tonga Trench and depth-stratified population structure in the scavenging amphipod Dahl, 1959

Biogeography, Ecology, and Vulnerability of Chemosynthetic Ecosystems in the Deep Sea

CenSeam, an International Program on Seamounts within the Census of Marine Life: achievements and lessons learned

Challenges for the conservation of marine small natural features

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

Cold-water coral habitats on seamounts: do they have a specialist fauna?

Community structure and diversity of scavenging amphipods from bathyal to hadal depths in three South Pacific Trenches

Comparison between infaunal communities of the deep floor and edge of the Tonga Trench: Possible effects of differences in organic matter supply

Compositional patterns of benthic assemblages on the northwestern Ross Sea shelf, Antarctica: interacting environmental drivers operating at multiple spatial scales

Data Analysis Considerations

Deep-Sea Fauna

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

Determining Coral Density Thresholds for Identifying Structurally Complex Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the Deep Sea

Development of a Seafloor Community Classification for the New Zealand Region Using a Gradient Forest Approach

Development of an ecologic marine classification in the new zealand region.

Differences in meiofauna communities with sediment depth are greater than habitat effects on the New Zealand continental margin: implications for vulnerability to anthropogenic disturbance

Distribution, Source, and Burial of Sedimentary Organic Carbon in Kermadec and Atacama Trenches

Earthquakes drive large-scale submarine canyon development and sediment supply to deep-ocean basins

Echinoid associations with coral habitats differ with taxon in the deep sea and the influence of other echinoids, depth, and fishing history on their distribution

Ecological Role of Submarine Canyons and Need for Canyon Conservation: A Review

Effect of biodeposits from mussel culture on macroinvertebrate assemblages at sites of different hydrodynamic regime

Effect of habitat fragmentation on the macroinvertebrate infaunal communities associated with the seagrass Zostera marina L

Examining the utility of a decision-support tool to develop spatial management options for the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems on the high seas around New Zealand

Fine-Scale Mapping of Mega-Epibenthic Communities and Their Patch Characteristics on Two New Zealand Seamounts

Focused fluid seepage related to variations in accretionary wedge structure, Hikurangi margin, New Zealand

Habitat Differences in Deep-Sea Megafaunal Communities off New Zealand: Implications for Vulnerability to Anthropogenic Disturbance and Management

Habitat-forming bryozoans in New Zealand: their known and predicted distribution in relation to broad-scale environmental variables and fishing effort

Hadal trenches are dynamic hotspots for early diagenesis in the deep sea

Identifying Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas (EBSA): A systematic method and its application to seamounts in the South Pacific Ocean

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

Is there a link between deep-sea biodiversity and ecosystem function?

Key Ecological Function Peaks at the Land–Ocean Transition Zone When Vertebrate Scavengers Concentrate on Ocean Beaches

Large-scale environmental influences on the benthic macroinfauna of the southern Gulf of Mexico

Latitudinal diversity patterns in estuarine tidal flats: indications of a global cline

Life on Seamounts

Limitations in the Use of Archived Vent Mussel Samples to Assess Genetic Connectivity Among Seafloor Massive Sulfide Deposits: A Case Study with Implications for Environmental Management

Little Evidence of Benthic Community Resilience to Bottom Trawling on Seamounts After 15 Years

Long-term effects of a toxic algal bloom on subtidal soft-sediment macroinvertebrate communities in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand

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

Marine fish may be biochemically constrained from inhabiting the deepest ocean depths

Methane seepage along the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand: Overview of studies in 2006 and 2007 and new evidence from visual, bathymetric and hydroacoustic investigations

Mining of deep-sea seafloor massive sulfides: A review of the deposits, their benthic communities, impacts from mining, regulatory frameworks and management strategies

Nematode beta diversity on the continental slope of New Zealand: spatial patterns and environmental drivers

Nematode communities in sediments of the Kermadec Trench, Southwest Pacific Ocean

New sponge species from hydrothermal vent and cold seep sites off New Zealand

Novel Application of a Compound-Specific Stable Isotope (CSSI) Tracking Technique Demonstrates Connectivity Between Terrestrial and Deep-Sea Ecosystems via Submarine Canyons

Out of their depth? Isolated deep populations of the cosmopolitan coral Desmophyllum dianthus may be highly vulnerable to environmental change

Paradigms in seamount ecology: fact, fiction and future

Patterns of deep-sea genetic connectivity in the New Zealand region: implications for management of benthic ecosystems.

Polychaete assemblages of the northwestern Ross Sea shelf: worming out the environmental drivers of Antarctic macrobenthic assemblage composition

Population Structure and Genetic Connectivity of Squat Lobsters (Munida Leach, 1820) Associated With Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the Southwest Pacific Ocean

Population genetic structure and connectivity of deep-sea stony corals (Order Scleractinia) in the New Zealand region: Implications for the conservation and management of vulnerable marine ecosystems.

Predicting global habitat suitability for stony corals on seamounts

Predicting the effects of climate change on deep‐water coral distribution around New Zealand—Will there be suitable refuges for protection at the end of the 21st century?

Regional and sediment depth differences in nematode community structure greater than between habitats on the New Zealand margin: Implications for vulnerability to anthropogenic disturbance

Resilience of seamount benthic communities to trawling disturbance

Review and syntheses: Impacts of turbidity flows on deep-sea benthic communities

Review of recent trends in ecological studies of deep-sea meiofauna, with focus on patterns and processes at small to regional spatial scales

Science priorities for seamounts: research links to conservation and management

Seafloor massive sulfide deposits support unique megafaunal assemblages: Implications for seabed mining and conservation.

Seamount benthos in a cobalt-rich crust region of the central Pacific: conservation challenges for future seabed mining

Seamount science scales undersea mountains: new research and outlook

Sediment Accumulation and Carbon Burial in Four Hadal Trench Systems

Spatial variability of prokaryotic and viral abundances in the Kermadec and Atacama Trench regions

Species-specific genetic variation in response to deep-sea environmental variation amongst Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem indicator taxa

Squat lobster assemblages on seamounts differ from some, but not all, deep-sea habitats of comparable depth

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

The Cook Strait Canyon, New Zealand

The complete mitochondrial genome of the deep-sea stony coral Solenosmilia variabilis (Scleractinia, Caryophylliidae) and its inter-individual variation.

The distribution of benthic biomass in hadal trenches: A modelling approach to investigate the effect of vertical and lateral organic matter transport to the seafloor

A quantitative technique for sampling motile macroinvertebrates in beds of the seagrass <i>Posidonia oceanica</i> (L.) Delile