| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - There are four areas with relatively extensive sampling on which much of our knowledge of the abyssal fauna is based: (1) the northwest Atlantic off the US east coast sampled in the 1980s, including stations on the continental slope that led to the estimates of deep-sea species richness by Grassle & Maciolek (1992); (2) the manganese nodule area off Peru, where the German DISCOL disturbance experi
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