Vonnahme, Tobias R.; Molari, Massimiliano; Janssen, Felix; Wenzhöfer, Frank; Haeckel, Matthias; Titschak, Juergen; Boetius, Antje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-29)
Future supplies of rare minerals for global industries with high-tech products may depend on deep-sea mining. However, environmental standards for seafloor integrity and recovery from environmental impacts are missing. We revisited the only midsize deep-sea disturbance and recolonization experiment carried out in 1989 in the Peru Basin nodule field to compare habitat integrity, remineralization ...