Hitting rock bottom.

• Autores: Lucas Laursen
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 311, Nº. 3, 2014, págs. 22-22
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses a report in the June 2014 issue of the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA" on research by ecologist Antonio Pusceddu of the Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona, Italy, investigating how bottom trawling changes the ocean's bottom. Topics include deep-sea trawling's impact on biodiversity and ocean carbon cycling, the ecological role of bottom-feeding organisms, and finding ways to make fishing less harmful to the marine environment.