Introduction Species sorting by environmental gradients is an important driver of benthic meiofaunal biodiversity in marine ecosystems, but there are few attempts to test these effects in coastal habitats. Methods In this study, we evaluated the importance of habitat filtering in shaping meiofaunal communities across rocky tide pools and nearby sandy beaches in the Eastern Brazilian Marine Ecoregion, SW Atlantic. We proposed t...

The great variety of geological and hydrological conditions in the deep sea generates many different habitats. Some are only recently explored, although their true extent and geographical coverage are still not fully established. Both continental margins and mid‐oceanic seafloors are much more complex ecologically, geologically, chemically and hydrodynamically than originally thought. As a result, fundamental patterns of speci...