Deep-Sea Mining With No Net Loss of Biodiversity—An Impossible Aim
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1 Department of Engineering, University College London, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 2 National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, 3 Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, 4 Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología-CU, Biodiversidad y Macroecologia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, 5 Deep-Sea Conservation Coalition, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 6 Macquarie Law School and Macquarie Marine Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 7 Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation and Integrative Oceanography Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, 8 Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, 9 Ocean Governance, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany, 10 Division of Marine Science and Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Beaufort, NC, United States, 11 Department of Biology, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, 12 IUCN Marine and Polar Programme, Cambridge, MA, United States
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