"He must, so know the starfish and the student biologist who sits at the feet of living things, proliferate in all
directions. Having certain tendencies, he must move along their lines to the limit of their potentialities."

John Steinbeck - Log from the Sea of Cortez

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Hawaiian canyons

A new paper appearing in Marine Ecology examines the biodiversity of marine canyons in the Hawaiian archipelago and comes up with some interesting discoveries. The study, which involved 36 submersible expeditions at depths ranging from 350 to 1500 me, showed that the canyons support diverse communities of fish and invertebrates, and yielded 41 species not found elsewhere in the Hawaiian Islands.

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