Abyssal demersal fish are typically large, mobile scavengers and predators, and are likely to be significant in the maintenance of ecosystem structure and function.
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High resolution study of the spatial distributions of abyssal fishes by autonomous underwater vehicle.
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Determining how abyssal fish are distributed would provide valuable data to better understand their role in the ecosystem, and infer which ecological processes may be significant at particular spatial scales.