Science priorities for seamounts: research links to conservation and management.

Direct physical impacts at active sites on the spatially restricted hydrothermal vent fauna are likely to be significant initially, with the removal of habitat and a largely endemic fauna [75] . 1.6 Seamounts are very slow to recover from impacts Recovery of vulnerable species, and the assemblages which they form, from human impacts is predicted to be very slow in the deep sea [76] .

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