The boxes above show the five DBO sites.  These are regional “hotspot” transect lines and stations located along a latitudinal gradient, which are considered to exhibit high productivity, biodiversity, and overall rates of change. Information about each of these sites is shown in the sidebar items to the left.

• “foot prints” of high benthic biomass reflect pelagic-benthic coupling and export of carbon to sediments
• infaunal dominated by amphipods, bivalves, polychaetes, and sipunculids