FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Toward a reliable assessment of potential ecological impacts of deep‐sea polymetallic nodule mining on abyssal infauna BT AF Lins, Lidia Zeppilli, Daniela Menot, Lenaick Michel, Loic Bonifácio, Paulo Brandt, Miriam Pape, Ellen Rossel, Sven Uhlenkott, Katja Macheriotou, Lara Bezerra, Tania Nara Sánchez, Nuria ALFARO LUCAS, Joan Manel Martínez Arbizu, Pedro Kaiser, Stefanie Murakami, Chisato Vanreusel, Ann AS 1:1,2;2:3;3:3;4:3;5:3;6:4;7:1;8:2;9:2;10:1;11:1;12:3;13:3;14:2;15:5;16:6;17:1; FF 1:;2:PDG-REM-EEP-LEP;3:PDG-REM-EEP-LEP;4:PDG-REM-EEP-LEP;5:PDG-REM-EEP-LEP;6:PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LHM;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:PDG-REM-EEP-LEP;13:;14:;15:;16:;17:; C1 Marine Biology Research Group Ghent University Ghent ,Belgium German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB) Senckenberg am Meer Wilhelmshaven, Germany IFREMER, Centre de Bretagne, REM/EEP/LEP, ZI de la pointe du diable Plouzané, France MARBEC, Univ. Montpellier, Ifremer, CNRS, IRD Sète ,France Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology University of Lodz Łódź ,Poland Deep Ocean Resources Development Co., Ltd Tokyo, Japan C2 UNIV GHENT, BELGIUM DZMB, GERMANY IFREMER, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV LODZ, POLAND DEEP OCEAN RESOURCES DEVLP CO, JAPAN SI BREST SETE SE PDG-REM-EEP-LEP PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LHM UM MARBEC IN WOS Ifremer UPR WOS Ifremer UMR copubli-europe copubli-int-hors-europe IF 3.162 TC 14 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00708/82033/86785.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00708/82033/86786.docx LA English DT Article AB The increasing demand for metals is pushing forward the progress of deep-sea mining industry. The abyss between the Clarion and Clipperton Fracture Zones (CCFZ), a region holding a higher concentration of minerals than land deposits, is the most targeted area for the exploration of polymetallic nodules worldwide, which may likely disturb the seafloor across large areas and over many years. Effects from nodule extraction cause acute biodiversity loss of organisms inhabiting sediments and polymetallic nodules. Attention to deep-sea ecosystems and their services has to be considered before mining starts but the lack of basic scientific knowledge on the methodologies for the ecological surveys of fauna in the context of deep-sea mining impacts is still scarce. We review the methodology to sample, process and investigate metazoan infauna both inhabiting sediments and nodules dwelling on these polymetallic-nodule areas. We suggest effective procedures for sampling designs, devices and methods involving gear types, sediment processing, morphological and genetic identification including metabarcoding and proteomic fingerprinting, the assessment of biomass, functional traits, fatty acids, and stable isotope studies within the CCFZ based on both first-hand experiences and literature. We recommend multi- and boxcorers for the quantitative assessments of meio- and macrofauna, respectively. The assessment of biodiversity at species level should be focused and/or the combination of morphological with metabarcoding or proteomic fingerprinting techniques. We highlight that biomass, functional traits, and trophic markers may provide critical insights for biodiversity assessments and how statistical modeling facilitates predicting patterns spatially across point-source data and is essential for conservation management. PY 2021 PD SEP SO Limnology And Oceanography-methods SN 1541-5856 PU Wiley VL 19 IS 9 UT 000678860600001 BP 626 EP 650 DI 10.1002/lom3.10448 ID 82033 ER EF