My research is focused to analyze the resilience and adaptive capacity of mesophotic benthic communities (50 – 350 m depth) from oceanic islands and seamounts to climate-related hazards and other anthropogenic threats (i.e. marine litter). The results of that research will provide essential information for management plans that target the preservation and restoration of submarine islands and seamounts.

  Please note that only publications relevant to mesophotic reefs are indexed.

	Unexplored diversity of the mesophotic echinoderm fauna of the Easter Island ecoregion | article Mecho A, Easton EE, Sellanes J, Gorny M, Mah C (2019) Mar Biol 166:1-17
	Chile and the Salas y Gomez Ridge | chapter Easton EE, Gorny M, Mecho A, Sellanes J, Gaymer CF, Spalding HL, Aburto J (2019) in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems () by Loya Y, Puglise KA, Bridge TCL
	Environmental drivers of mesophotic echinoderm assemblages of the southeastern Pacific Ocean | article Mecho A, Dewitte B, Sellanes J, van Gennip S, Easton EE, Gusmao JB (2021) Front Mar Sci 8:574780

  Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)
  Dredging / trawling