Amazing to see some of the research carried out while we were making the film being published ! 💫
Huge congrats to deep sea biologist & ever-stylish advocate of the tiny deep sea guys Eva Stewart
@evastwrt
Eva is lead author of the ‘nature ecology & evolution’ paper which shows that mining vehicles cause significant damage to the seabed, reducing diversity and the number of animals by over a third.
“The machine removes about the top five centimetres of sediment. That’s where most of the animals live. So obviously, if you’re removing the sediment, you’re removing the animals in it too,”
- Eva Stewart
Link to paper /articles/s41559-025-02911-4
Congrats to all the co-authors of the paper - Helena Wikilund, Lenka Neal, Lupita Bribiesca-Contreras,
@pita_b_c , Regan Drennan
@regan.drennan , Codie M.B Boolukos, Lucas King
@_lucas_king , Muriel Rabone
@bakedon_bookbag , Georgina Valls Domedel, Amanda Serpell- Stevens, Maria B Arias, Thomas G Dahlgren, Tammy Horton , Adrian Glover
@natural_history_museum @nocnews
#deepsearesearch #defendthedeep #deepsea #biologist #deepseamining
