Human activities on the deep seafloor in the North East Atlantic: an assessment of spatial extent.

BACKGROUND: Environmental impacts of human activities on the deep seafloor are of increasing concern. While activities within waters shallower than 200 m have been the focus of previous assessments of anthropogenic impacts, no study has quantified the extent of individual activities or determined th...

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Main Authors: Angela R Benn, Philip P Weaver, David S M Billet, Sybille van den Hove, Andrew P Murdock, Gemma B Doneghan, Tim Le Bas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2938353?pdf=render