READ ME File For 'Data supporting University of Southampton Doctoral Thesis entitled: Taxonomy, Ecology, and Evolution in the Eastern Pacific Abyss'

Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/PG/D172

ReadMe Author: Eva C. D. Stewart, University of Southampton, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8383-5705

This dataset supports the thesis entitled: Taxonomy, Ecology, and Evolution in the Eastern Pacific Abyss
AWARDED BY: University of Southampton
DATE OF AWARD: 2026


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The data underlying this thesis are published online in the related supplementary material for each published chapter and are available at: 


Stewart, E. C. D., Bribiesca-Contreras, G., Taboada, S., Wiklund, H., Ravara, A., Pape, E., de Smet, B., Neal, L., Cunha, M., Jones, D., Smith, C., Glover, A. G., & Dahlgren, T. G. (2023a). Biodiversity, biogeography, and connectivity of polychaetes in the world’s largest marine minerals exploration frontier [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/DRYAD.C2FQZ61CK 

Stewart, E. C. D., Bribiesca‐Contreras, G., Taboada, S., Wiklund, H., Ravara, A., Pape, E., De Smet, B., Neal, L., Cunha, M. R., Jones, D. O. B., Smith, C. R., Glover A. G., & Dahlgren, T. G. (2023). Biodiversity, biogeography, and connectivity of polychaetes in the world’s largest marine minerals exploration frontier. Diversity and Distributions, 29(6), 727-747. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13690

Stewart, E. C. D., Wiklund, H., Neal, L., Bribiesca‐Contreras, G., Drennan, R., Boolukos, C. M. B., King, L., Rabone, M., Valls-Domedel, G., Serpell-Stevens, A., Arias, M. B., Dahlgren, T. G., Horton, T., & Glover, A. G. (2026). Impacts of an industrial deep-sea mining trial on macrofaunal biodiversity. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 10, 318–329. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02911-4. 

Stewart, E. C. D., Bribiesca-Contreras, G., Weston, J. N. J., Glover, A. G., & Horton, T. (2024). Biogeography and phylogeny of the scavenging amphipod genus Valettietta (Amphipoda: Alicelloidea), with descriptions of two new species from the abyssal Pacific Ocean. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 201(4), zlae102. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae102

Stewart, E. C. D., Jimi, N., Moreau, C., Wiklund, H., Dahlgren, T. G., & Glover, A. G. (2026). Novel deep-sea commensalism: A new genus and two new species of Myzostomida from the abyssal Pacific Ocean. Invertebrate Systematics, 40. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS25078


Date that the file was created: April 2026