Biodiversity
Threats to biodiversity are focused around human interaction with the different factors of oil drilling , tourism , growth in population and over fishing which lead to unnecessary death in fish leading to an unbalance in population.
Primary productivity in the benthic zone deals with the substrate, temperature and organic material that reaches the sea floor consisting of polymers like proteins, lipids, polysaccerides and nucleic acids.
Primary productivity in the benthic zone deals with the substrate, temperature and organic material that reaches the sea floor consisting of polymers like proteins, lipids, polysaccerides and nucleic acids.
Hot Spot Areas for Benthic Zone Biodiversity
The Atlantic Coast of Africa and the European open slopes from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea serve as benthic zone hot spots because they show from a continental margin scale study that there is species richness in the different types of ocean bottom life with one of the leading productivity factors of up-welling cool water.
