The biogeography of open ocean and seabed environments remains an active area of investigation, with substantial gaps in our knowledge of many habitats, such as seamounts, and some faunal groups, such as the abyssal macrofauna, as well as of large areas of the oceans remain poorly sampled.
The biogeography of open ocean and seabed environments remains an active area of investigation, with substantial gaps in our knowledge of many habitats, such as seamounts, and some faunal groups, such as the abyssal macrofauna, as well as of large areas of the oceans remain poorly sampled.