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Section Spotlight: Solutions for Ocean and Coastal Systems

Solutions for Ocean and Coastal Systems, led by Jose A. A. Antolínez and Deborah Greaves, advances science-based, interdisciplinary research to transform design and management for resilient, sustainable ocean and coastal futures.

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Deep-Sea Environments and Ecology

Submit your research

Author guidelines

Editor guidelines

Peer review

Publishing fees

Journal notices

Editor's Choice Article

Section Spotlight: Solutions for Ocean and Coastal Systems

Author Guidelines

Research Topic Spotlight

Frontiers FAIR² now open!

Editors

saskia brix

martin schwentner

jacopo aguzzi

lorenzo angeletti

Articles

A Coupled Phosphorus and Carbon Cycling Mediated by Prokaryotic Microbes in the Deepest Trench

Diversity and connectivity of bacterial communities in polymetallic nodule-rich abyssal plains (Eastern Tropical Pacific)

From local discovery to global insights: Deep-sea amphipod diversity in a high seas Marine Protected Area and its conservation implications

High resolution seafloor photogrammetry indicates long-term persistence of a sulphophilic community on a whale fall in the NE Pacific

Research Topics

Women in Marine Science: 2026

Epistemic Hospitality and Anthropogenic Impacts in the Oceans: Deep-Sea Mining

Charting the Course – Perspectives from Leaders in Marine Science

From Cold Seeps to Hydrothermal Vents: Geology, Chemistry, Microbiology, and Ecology in Marine and Coastal Environments