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Ploughing the deep sea floor

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  • Pere Puig

    (Marine Sciences Institute, CSIC, E-, Spain)

  • Miquel Canals

    (CRG Marine Geosciences, University of Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain)

  • Joan B. Company

    (Marine Sciences Institute, CSIC, E-, Spain)

  • Jacobo Martín

    (Marine Sciences Institute, CSIC, E-, Spain)

  • David Amblas

    (CRG Marine Geosciences, University of Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain)

  • Galderic Lastras

    (CRG Marine Geosciences, University of Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain)

  • Albert Palanques

    (Marine Sciences Institute, CSIC, E-, Spain)

  • Antoni M. Calafat

    (CRG Marine Geosciences, University of Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain)

Abstract

Bottom trawling is a fishing technique whereby heavy nets and gear scrape along the sea bed, and is shown here to disturb sediment fluxes and modify the sea floor morphology over large spatial scales.

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  • Pere Puig & Miquel Canals & Joan B. Company & Jacobo Martín & David Amblas & Galderic Lastras & Albert Palanques & Antoni M. Calafat, 2012. "Ploughing the deep sea floor," Nature, Nature, vol. 489(7415), pages 286-289, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:489:y:2012:i:7415:d:10.1038_nature11410
    DOI: 10.1038/nature11410
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    1. Nawfel Mosbahi & Jean-Philippe Pezy & Jean-Claude Dauvin & Lassad Neifar, 2022. "COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown: An Excellent Opportunity to Study the Effects of Trawling Disturbance on Macrobenthic Fauna in the Shallow Waters of the Gulf of Gabès (Tunisia, Central Mediterranean Sea)," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(3), pages 1-17, January.
    2. Eli D. Lazarus, 2017. "Toward a Global Classification of Coastal Anthromes," Land, MDPI, vol. 6(1), pages 1-27, February.
    3. Torres, María Ángeles & Coll, Marta & Heymans, Johanna Jacomina & Christensen, Villy & Sobrino, Ignacio, 2013. "Food-web structure of and fishing impacts on the Gulf of Cadiz ecosystem (South-western Spain)," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 265(C), pages 26-44.
    4. Scott Moore & Dale Squires, 2016. "Governing the Depths: Conceptualizing the Politics of Deep Sea Resources," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 16(2), pages 101-109, May.

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