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 the role of abiotic and biotic filtering processes on species assembly, functions, and resilience of benthic megafauna communities to the impacts of climate change or industrial activities like seabed mining. This work has contributed to standardise, improve, and optimise ecosystem-based approaches supporting the development of climate-smart international conservation strategies, and environmental impact management plans, particularly in the abyssal Pacific. At ICM, my current research aims to disentangle how environmental gradients, functional diversity, biotic interactions, and dispersal limitations interact to shape macroecological patterns across the global abyssal seafloor, and to forecast how these ecosystems may respond to the growing human pressures in one of Earth’s last wildernesses.