Automated and quantitative characterization of multi-scale benthic habitat and associated biological communities of an unknown southeast Pacific seamount
Yakufu Niyazi, Denise J. B. Swanborn, Jan M. Tapia-Guerra, Javier Sellanes, Erin E. Easton, Germán Zapata-Hernández, Heather Stewart, Alan John Jamieson
This study quantitatively maps a previously undocumented seamount's habitat and associated benthic communities, revealing how environmental heterogeneity structures megafaunal assemblages.
bioRxiv · Mar 12, 2026 · PreprintEcology