For the seabed and ocean floor in areas beyond national jurisdiction (known legally as The Area), measures of benthic representativity often rely on sea-bottom oceanographic, superficial, and topological data, because of the scarcity of biological data.
For the seabed and ocean floor in areas beyond national jurisdiction (known legally as The Area), measures of benthic representativity often rely on sea-bottom oceanographic, superficial, and topological data, because of the scarcity of biological data.