Spatial Ecology The high seas is both a single thing and the sum of many parts. It is singular because it is connected by both currents and by species. However, it is also seamounts and hydrothermal vents and gyres, and convergence zones, and fracture zones and the “midnight zone”… and the list goes on. …
What are the high seas? Deep, distant, dynamic, and diverse. Beyond borders but not beyond governance. A global commons and the common heritage of humankind. What we do Spatial Ecology Where does biodiversity exist in the ocean? To answer this question, Duke scientists, led by the Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab (MGEL), have endeavored to provide fellow scientists …