Deep Ocean Mining Environmental Study Environmental Effects of Commercial-Scale Mining

摘要

A collection of papers concerning the Deep Ocean Mining Environmental Study are pre¬sented. The titles are: Estimated Discharge Characteristics of a Commercial Nodule Mining Operation;Dissolved Components of the Discharge;Increased Oxygen Demand and Microbial Biomass;Trace Metal Exchange Between Ferromanganese Nodules and Artificial Seawater;Dispersion of Deep-Sea Mining Particulates and their Effect on Light in Ocean Surface Layers: Environmental Investigation of the Effect of Deep-Sea Mining on Marine Phytoplankton and Primary Productivity in the Tropical Eastern North Pacific Ocean;Potential Effects of Deep-Sea Minerals Mining on Macrozooplankton in the North Equa-torial Pacific;Dispersal and Resedimentation of the Benthic Plume from Deep-Sea Mining Operations--A Model with Calibration;and Limits in Prediction and Detecting Benthic Community Response to Manganese Nodule Mining.