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This article is part of the Research Topic: Biodiversity, Connectivity and Ecosystem Function Across the Clarion-Clipperton Zone: A Regional Synthesis for an Area Targeted for Nodule Mining.

MH and JP were supported by Swiss National Science Foundation grants

ZS, TR, and BW-W acknowledge support provided by the Polish National Science Center Grant and by the JPI Oceans Pilot Action “Ecological Effects of Deep-Sea Mining”.

Additional support was provided by the Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences of the University of Szczecin, Poland.

Research by OK was funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation,

FL was supported by an Early Postdoc Mobility Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation .

Research conducted in the UK-1 and OMS contract areas in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone were collected as part of the ABYSSLINE project, funded by UK Seabed Resources Development Ltd.