Abstract
Little is known of New Guinea's deep benthic communities. In fall 2010, the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, and University of Papua New Guinea spearheaded an international three-leg cruise, BioPapua, aimed at exploring the deep waters of eastern Papua New Guinea and its satellite islands. Special attention was given to faunal assemblages associated with sunken wood and decomposing vegetation as well as seamount summits and slopes. In this article, we review the information available on the deep ecosystems of Papua New Guinea and summarize preliminary results of the BioPapua cruise.
Highlights
We review the information available on the deep ecosystems of Papua New Guinea and summarize preliminary results of the BioPapua cruise
Jared Diamond’s observations of the bird fauna of New Guinea and its satellite islands nourished his work on the structure of ecological communities and fed the “Single Large Or Several Small [SLOSS]” debate on the application of the principles of biogeography in reserve design and conservation biology (Diamond, 1972, 1973, 1975)
We review the available information on the deep-sea environments of Papua New Guinea (PNG), and describe the efforts deployed for the BioPapua cruise
Summary
LEFT | A freshly collected specimen of the spider crab Oxypleurodon christiani, newly described from the BioPapua collections (Richer de Forges and Corbari, 2012). In fall 2010, the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, and University of Papua New Guinea spearheaded an international three-leg cruise, BioPapua, aimed at exploring the deep waters of eastern Papua New Guinea and its satellite islands. We review the information available on the deep ecosystems of Papua New Guinea and summarize preliminary results of the BioPapua cruise. In fall 2010, the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN) and the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD; France), in collaboration with the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG), put together a team of international scientists to explore and describe the deep benthic fauna of the Bismarck and Solomon Seas. We review the available information on the deep-sea environments of Papua New Guinea (PNG), and describe the efforts deployed for the BioPapua cruise. He was a great companion at sea and on land, and is sorely missed
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