| Abyssal food limitation, ecosystem structure and climate change CR Smith, FC De Leo, AF Bernardino, AK Sweetman, PM Arbizu Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23 (9), 518-528, 2008 | 605 | 2008 |
| Environmental impacts of the deep-water oil and gas industry: a review to guide management strategies EE Cordes, DOB Jones, TA Schlacher, DJ Amon, AF Bernardino, ... Frontiers in Environmental Science 4, 58, 2016 | 410 | 2016 |
| Ecosystem function and services provided by the deep sea AR Thurber, AK Sweetman, BE Narayanaswamy, DOB Jones, J Ingels, ... Biogeosciences 11 (14), 3941-3963, 2014 | 387 | 2014 |
| Major impacts of climate change on deep-sea benthic ecosystems AK Sweetman, AR Thurber, CR Smith, LA Levin, C Mora, CL Wei, ... Elem Sci Anth 5, 4, 2017 | 339 | 2017 |
| Defining “serious harm” to the marine environment in the context of deep-seabed mining LA Levin, K Mengerink, KM Gjerde, AA Rowden, CL Van Dover, MR Clark, ... Marine Policy 74, 245-259, 2016 | 315 | 2016 |
| Biological responses to disturbance from simulated deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining DOB Jones, S Kaiser, AK Sweetman, CR Smith, L Menot, A Vink, ... PLoS One 12 (2), e0171750, 2017 | 295 | 2017 |
| Biotic and human vulnerability to projected changes in ocean biogeochemistry over the 21st century C Mora, CL Wei, A Rollo, T Amaro, AR Baco, D Billett, L Bopp, Q Chen, ... PLoS Biology 11 (10), e1001682, 2013 | 275 | 2013 |
| A call for deep-ocean stewardship KJ Mengerink, CL Van Dover, J Ardron, M Baker, E Escobar-Briones, ... Science 344 (6185), 696-698, 2014 | 257 | 2014 |
| Climate‐induced changes in the suitable habitat of cold‐water corals and commercially important deep‐sea fishes in the North Atlantic T Morato, JM González‐Irusta, C Dominguez‐Carrió, CL Wei, A Davies, ... Global Change Biology 26 (4), 2181-2202, 2020 | 170 | 2020 |
| Trophic structure and community stability in an overfished ecosystem AC Utne-Palm, AGV Salvanes, B Currie, S Kaartvedt, GE Nilsson, ... Science 329 (5989), 333-336, 2010 | 160 | 2010 |
| Jelly-falls historic and recent observations: a review to drive future research directions M Lebrato, KA Pitt, AK Sweetman, DOB Jones, JE Cartes, A Oschlies, ... Hydrobiologia 690, 227-245, 2012 | 135 | 2012 |
| Rapid scavenging of jellyfish carcasses reveals the importance of gelatinous material to deep-sea food webs AK Sweetman, CR Smith, T Dale, DOB Jones Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1796), 20142210, 2014 | 129 | 2014 |
| Climate change considerations are fundamental to management of deep‐sea resource extraction LA Levin, CL Wei, DC Dunn, DJ Amon, OS Ashford, WWL Cheung, ... Global Change Biology 26 (9), 4664-4678, 2020 | 117 | 2020 |
| Vertical, lateral and temporal structure in larval distributions at hydrothermal vents LS Mullineaux, SW Mills, AK Sweetman, AH Beaudreau, A Metaxas, ... Marine Ecology Progress Series 293, 1-16, 2005 | 102 | 2005 |
| Deep-sea misconceptions cause underestimation of seabed-mining impacts CR Smith, V Tunnicliffe, A Colaço, JC Drazen, S Gollner, LA Levin, ... Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35 (10), 853-857, 2020 | 98 | 2020 |
| Impacts of exotic mangrove forests and mangrove deforestation on carbon remineralization and ecosystem functioning in marine sediments AK Sweetman, JJ Middelburg, AM Berle, AF Bernardino, C Schander, ... Biogeosciences 7 (7), 2129-2145, 2010 | 79 | 2010 |
| The deep sea: the new frontier for ecological restoration Z Da Ros, A Dell'Anno, T Morato, AK Sweetman, M Carreiro-Silva, ... Marine Policy 108, 103642, 2019 | 72 | 2019 |
| First observations of jelly-falls at the seafloor in a deep-sea fjord AK Sweetman, A Chapman Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 58 (12), 1206-1211, 2011 | 69 | 2011 |
| Abyssal plain faunal carbon flows remain depressed 26 years after a simulated deep-sea mining disturbance T Stratmann, L Lins, A Purser, Y Marcon, CF Rodrigues, A Ravara, ... Biogeosciences 15 (13), 4131-4145, 2018 | 68 | 2018 |
| Key role of bacteria in the short‐term cycling of carbon at the abyssal seafloor in a low particulate organic carbon flux region of the eastern Pacific Ocean AK Sweetman, CR Smith, CN Shulse, B Maillot, M Lindh, MJ Church, ... Limnology and Oceanography 64 (2), 694-713, 2019 | 63 | 2019 |