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Monsoonal forcing of cold-water coral growth off southeastern Brazil during the past 160 kyr [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2020
Cold-water corals (CWCs) constitute important deep-water ecosystems that are under increasing environmental pressure due to ocean acidification and global warming.
A. Bahr, M. Doubrawa, M. Doubrawa, J. Titschack, J. Titschack, G. Austermann, A. Koutsodendris, D. Nürnberg, A. L. Albuquerque, O. Friedrich, J. Raddatz   +10 more
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Recovery and restoration potential of cold‐water corals: experience from a deep‐sea marine protected area

Restoration Ecology, Volume 31, Issue 8, November 2023., 2023
Cold‐water corals (CWCs) are important species that provide habitat for other taxa but are sensitive to mechanical damage from bottom trawling. CWC conservation has been implemented in the form of marine protected areas (MPAs), but recovery from impact may be particularly slow in the deep‐sea environment; consequently, the use of restoration techniques
James A. Strong, Nils Piechaud, Laurence H. De Clippele, Brian J. Bett, Tammy Horton, Guillem Corbera, Veerle A. I. Huvenne   +6 more
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On the paradox of thriving cold‐water coral reefs in the food‐limited deep sea

Biological Reviews, Volume 98, Issue 5, Page 1768-1795, October 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT The deep sea is amongst the most food‐limited habitats on Earth, as only a small fraction (<4%) of the surface primary production is exported below 200 m water depth. Here, cold‐water coral (CWC) reefs form oases of life: their biodiversity compares with tropical coral reefs, their biomass and metabolic activity exceed other deep‐sea ...
Sandra R. Maier, Sandra Brooke, Laurence H. De Clippele, Evert de Froe, Anna‐Selma van der Kaaden, Tina Kutti, Furu Mienis, Dick van Oevelen   +7 more
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Solenosmilia variabilis-bearing cold-water coral mounds off Brazil [PDF]

, 2020
Cold-water corals (CWC), dominantly Desmophyllum pertusum (previously Lophelia pertusa), and their mounds have been in the focus of marine research during the last two decades; however, little is known about the mound-forming capacity of other CWC ...
Frank, N., Skornitzke, S., Rüggeberg, Andres, Vertino, Agostina, Schroeder-Ritzrau, A., Voigt, S., Titschack, J., Voigt, Silke, Freiwald, A., Conforti, A., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Raddatz, J., Stiller, W., Bahr, A., Osborne, Anne, Rueggeberg, A., Albuquerque, A. L. S., Vertino, A., Raddatz, Jacek, Osborne, A.   +19 more
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A benthic substrate classification method for seabed images using deep learning: Application to management of deep‐sea coral reefs

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 60, Issue 7, Page 1254-1273, July 2023., 2023
The availability of much larger volumes of automatically annotated image‐derived data will improve spatial management of impacts on coral‐based VMEs in the deep sea by (1) improved cross‐validation and performance of spatial models required to predict coral distribution and abundance over the large scales of managed areas, and (2) establishing ...
Chris Jackett, Franziska Althaus, Kylie Maguire, Moshiur Farazi, Ben Scoulding, Candice Untiedt, Tim Ryan, Peter Shanks, Pamela Brodie, Alan Williams   +9 more
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Seamount coral reefs are egg case nurseries for deep‐sea skates

Journal of Fish Biology, Volume 102, Issue 6, Page 1455-1469, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Egg case nurseries of the boreal skate (Amblyraja hyperborea) and Richardson's skate (Bathyraja richardsoni) were defined and mapped on a bathyal seascape (c. 500–1900 m depths) south of Tasmania, Australia, using 99 towed‐camera transects (157 linear km; N = 50,858 images).
Kylie Maguire, Helen O'Neill, Franziska Althaus, William White, Alan Williams   +4 more
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Determining Coral Density Thresholds for Identifying Structurally Complex Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the Deep Sea

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) are at risk from the impacts of deep-sea trawling. Identifying the presence of VMEs in high seas fisheries management areas has to date relied mainly on presence records, or on habitat suitability models of VME ...
Ashley A. Rowden, Ashley A. Rowden, Tabitha R. R. Pearman, David Anthony Bowden, Owen F. Anderson, Malcolm Ross Clark   +5 more
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Benthic foraminiferal faunas associated with cold‐water coral environments in the North Atlantic realm

The Depositional Record, Volume 7, Issue 2, Page 223-255, June 2021., 2021
Surface benthic foraminiferal assemblages associated with cold‐water coral mounds and reefs from the North‐east Atlantic (Irish margin and Norwegian shelf) share a common assemblage, dominated by elevated epibenthic and distinct infaunal species. This surface assemblage is typical for environments that are subject to strong bottom‐water turbulence with
Robin Fentimen, Gerhard Schmiedl, Andres Rüggeberg, Anneleen Foubert   +3 more
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Global‐scale genetic structure of a cosmopolitan cold‐water coral species

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 1-14, January 2021., 2021
Abstract 1.When considering widely distributed marine organisms with low dispersal capabilities, there is often an implication that the distribution of cosmopolitan species is an artefact of taxonomy, constrained by the absence of characters for delimiting either sibling or cryptic species.
Anna Maria Addamo, Karen J. Miller, Vreni Häussermann, Marco Taviani, Annie Machordom   +4 more
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A Geophysical Review of the Seabed Methane Seepage Features and Their Relationship with Gas Hydrate Systems

Geofluids, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021
Seabed methane seepage has gained attention from all over the world in recent years as an important source of greenhouse gas emission, and gas hydrates are also regarded as a key factor affecting climate change or even global warming due to their shallow burial and poor stability. However, the relationship between seabed methane seepage and gas hydrate
Jinxiu Yang, Mingyue Lu, Zhiguang Yao, Min Wang, Shuangfang Lu, Ning Qi, Ying Xia, Wei Zhang   +7 more
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