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Biology, 2023 Seamounts are the least known ocean biome. Considered biodiversity hotspots, biomass oases, and refuges for megafauna, large gaps exist in their real diversity relative to other ecosystems like coral reefs.
Florian Baletaud +8 more
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Seamounts – characteristics, formation, mineral deposits and biodiversity [PDF]
Geologica Acta, 2012 Seamounts represent crust-mantle activities and are areas of petrological deviations, biodiversity, seismicity and hydrothermal events. An estimated ~50 million tons/year of basalts are required to produce seamounts suggesting intense oceanic volcanism.
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 1-26., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Richard E. Ernst +8 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Seamounts have long been recognised as hotspots for pelagic productivity and diversity in the world’s open ocean habitats. Recent studies have suggested that productivity may vary greatly between different seamounts, depending on complex interactions ...
Fabio Campanella +5 more
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Seamount physiography and biology in the north-east Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2013 This work aims at characterising the seamount physiography and biology in the OSPAR Convention limits (north-east Atlantic Ocean) and Mediterranean Sea.
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, 2022 Sea mountains are arguably the most common large geomorphological features on Earth. Most seamounts are volcanic in origin and vary in shape with size. Small volcanic seamounts are simple, typically truncated cones, whereas seamounts taller than 3km have
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Habitat types and megabenthos composition from three sponge-dominated high-Arctic seamounts
Scientific Reports, 2022 Seamounts are isolated underwater mountains stretching > 1000 m above the seafloor. They are identified as biodiversity hotspots of marine life, and host benthic assemblages that may vary on regional (among seamounts) and local (within seamounts) scales.
Tanja Stratmann +5 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Deep sea canyons and seamounts are topographically complex features that are considered to be biological hotspots. Anthropogenic pressures related to climate change and human activities are placing the species that inhabit these features at risk.
Kristen Mello-Rafter +6 more
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Global Distribution and Morphology of Small Seamounts
Earth and Space Science, 2023 Seamounts are isolated elevations in the seafloor with circular or elliptical plans, comparatively steep slopes, and relatively small summit area (Menard, 1964).
Julie Gevorgian +4 more
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Projected pH reductions by 2100 might put deep North Atlantic biodiversity at risk [PDF]
, 2014 This study aims to evaluate the potential for impacts of ocean acidification on North Atlantic deep-sea ecosystems in response to IPCC AR5 Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs).
Gehlen, Marion +54 more
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