What is the main objective of the HERMES project?


a) To study the biodiversity and long-term changes of abyssal meiofauna.
b) To study the biodiversity and long-term changes of chemosynthetic communities.
c) To study the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in sediment slopes in areas of land detachment, deep-water corals, canyons, anoxic sediments supported by microbial communities, and cold seeps.