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Red coral extinction risk enhanced by ocean acidification [PDF]
, 2013 The red coral Corallium rubrum is a habitat-forming species with a prominent and structural role in mesophotic habitats, which sustains biodiversity hotspots.
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 Research on so-called “minor taxa” at mesophotic depths has lagged behind that of more commonly researched groups such as fish or hard corals. Exemplar taxa include species of the order Zoantharia, benthic colonial anemones that are cosmopolitan in ...
James Davis Reimer +11 more
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Demersal fish assemblages on seamounts and other rugged features in the northeastern Caribbean [PDF]
, 2017 © The Author(s), 2017. This is the author's version of the work and is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 123 (2017): 90–
Chaytor, Jason D. +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2017 Mesophotic coral ecosystems in the Indo-Pacific remain relatively unexplored, particularly at lower mesophotic depths (≥60 m), despite their potentially large spatial extent.
Norbert Englebert +5 more
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The coral core microbiome identifies rare bacterial taxa as ubiquitous endosymbionts [PDF]
, 2015 © 2015 International Society for Microbial Ecology All rights reserved. Despite being one of the simplest metazoans, corals harbor some of the most highly diverse and abundant microbial communities.
A Gonzalez +57 more
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Mesophotic.org: a repository for scientific information on mesophotic ecosystems [PDF]
Database, 2019 Abstract Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) and temperate mesophotic ecosystems (TMEs) occur at depths of roughly 30–150 m depth and are characterized by the presence of photosynthetic organisms despite reduced light availability. Exploration of these ecosystems dates back several decades, but our knowledge remained extremely limited ...
Pim Bongaerts +14 more
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Environmental DNA, 2022 AbstractMesophotic marine ecosystems are characterized by lower light penetration supporting specialized fish fauna. Due to their depths (−30–−150 m), accessibility is challenging, and the structure of mesophotic fish assemblages is generally less known than either shallow reefs or deep zones with soft bottoms which are generally trawled. Environmental
Muff, Marion +18 more
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Enhanced pelagic biomass around coral atolls [PDF]
, 2016 Understanding the processes driving the distribution of mid-water prey such as euphausiids and lanternfish is important for effective management and conservation.
Boersch-Supan, PH +3 more
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Transitions in coral reef accretion rates linked to intrinsic ecological shifts on turbid-zone nearshore reefs [PDF]
, 2016 Nearshore coral communities within turbid settings are typically perceived to have limited reef-building capacity. However, several recent studies have reported reef growth over millennial time scales within such environments and have hypothesized that ...
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Diversity, 2023 Coral-dwelling gall crabs (Cryptochiridae) are obligate symbionts of stony corals and occur on shallow and deep reefs across the tropical belt. The circumtropical genus Opecarcinus associates with Agariciidae corals, a dominant component of Mesophotic ...
Silvia Vimercati +8 more
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