Living Resources of the Deep Sea: Biological Profiles and Environmental Linkages
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 27
Special Issue Editors
2. Key Laboratory for Sustainable Utilization of Open-Sea Fishery, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Guangzhou 510300, China
3. Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China
Interests: marine microbiology; fish immunology especially in molecular immunology
Interests: fishery resources; diversity and spatiotemporal of nekton; fish biology; ichthyological ecology; fish taxonomy
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Dear Colleagues,
Deep-sea living resources are pivotal to food security, biodiversity conservation, and oceanic carbon cycling; however, their basic biological profiles—and the ways they couple to physical and chemical environments—remain largely undocumented.
This Special Issue addresses two interlinked questions: (1) What are the current status and life-history profiles of deep-ocean biota—including fishes, cephalopods, marine mammals, and microbial communities—covering biomass, diversity, age structure, diet, spawning grounds, migration routes, and reproductive cycles? (2) Which environmental drivers (temperature, oxygen, carbon flux, geomorphology, etc.) shape their distribution patterns, and what physiological, behavioral, and molecular mechanisms enable these organisms to adapt to high pressures, low temperatures, and perpetual darkness?
We welcome the submission of observational, experimental, and modelling contributions that apply traditional vessel surveys, fishery-dependent data, eDNA, acoustic and remote sensing, integrative taxonomy, or comparative genomics to clarify the basic traits of deep-sea organisms and to unravel the environmental factors and mechanisms shaping their distributions. The contribution of studies addressing either theme—or bridging both—is strongly encouraged.
Prof. Dr. Zuozhi Chen
Prof. Dr. Longshan Lin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- deep-sea fisheries
- spawning-ground shifts
- habitat–environment coupling
- rare deep-sea biodiversity
- molecular adaptation
- environmental DNA (eDNA)
- acoustic monitoring
- fishery remote-sensing
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