My research focuses on understanding the mechanisms that shape biodiversity patterns across space and time in very deep, remote, and poorly explored seabed ecosystems, like abyssal seascapes. I develop image-based ecological monitoring tools, applying underwater robotics to study species distributions, assembly, functions, and resilience of benthic communities to the impacts of climate change or industrial activities like deep-sea mining. This work has contributed to standardise, improve, and optimise the development of biodiversity conservation strategies, international policy, and environmental impact management plans, particularly in the abyssal Pacific. At ICM, my current research aims to disentangle how abiotic and biotic filtering processes interact to shape macroecological patterns across the deep ocean seafloor, and to forecast the responses of these remote ecosystems to the growing human pressures that threat one of Earth’s last wildernesses.