Abstract:Seamounts are isolated underwater mountains often stretching >1,000 m above the seafloor. They are usually identified as biodiversity hotspots of marine life, and host benthos assemblages that may vary on regional (among seamounts) and local (within seamounts) scales. Here, we collected seafloor imagery of three seamounts at the Langseth Ridge in the central Arctic Ocean to assess habitats and megabenthos community composition at the Central Mount (CM), the Karasik Seamount (KS), and the Northern Mount (NM)… Show more
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