Comment by kortilla
4 hours ago
How much of the ocean is deep sea vs not? Slow recovery doesn’t mean it’s the worst until you normalize it. Rare shallow but short life populations might be significantly more delicate
4 hours ago
How much of the ocean is deep sea vs not? Slow recovery doesn’t mean it’s the worst until you normalize it. Rare shallow but short life populations might be significantly more delicate
It depends on where you want to count the start of the deep sea in terms of depth, but the answer is somewhere between "most of it" and "almost all of it." Most of what we're used to is in the top 100 or so meters of the ocean, a very thin layer on top of the rest of the sea.
Significantly below the thermocline and/or in anoxic zones.