Deep-Sea Misconceptions Cause Underestimation of Seabed-Mining Impacts

Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1000 Pope Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA

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Department of Biology and School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada

Instituto do Mar – Okeanos Research Centre, University of the Azores, 9901-842 Horta, Azores, Portugal

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Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1000 Pope Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA

Department of Ocean Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Den Burg, The Netherlands

Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0218, USA

Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CIMA), Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2, Canada

Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS, 36 Nakhimovsky Prospekt, 117997 Moscow, Russia

The Lyell Centre for Earth and Marine Science and Technology, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1000 Pope Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA

Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK