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Hydrography and food distribution during a tidal cycle above a cold-water coral mound

2022

Cold-water corals (CWCs) are important ecosystem engineers in the deep sea that provide habitat for numerous species and can form large coral mounds. These mounds influence surrounding currents and induce distinct hy- drodynamic features, such as internal waves and episodic downwelling events that accelerate transport of organic matter towards the mounds, supplying the corals with food. To date, research on organic matter distribution at coral mounds has focussed either on seasonal timescales or has provided single point snapshots. Data on food distribution at the timescale of a diurnal tidal cycle is currently limited. Here, we integrate physical, biogeochemical, and biological data throug…

:Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Marinbiologi: 497 [VDP]Business Manager projecten Midden-NoordBenthic-pelagic couplingAquatic ScienceOceanographyOrganic matter transportParticulate organic matter:Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Økologi: 488 [VDP]Life Science:Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Oseanografi: 452 [VDP]Cold-water coralsInternal wavesBusiness Manager projects Mid-NorthDiurnal tidal cycleVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480
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Mediterranean bioconstructions along the Italian coast

2018

Marine bioconstructions are biodiversity-rich, three-dimensional biogenic structures, regulating key ecological functions of benthic ecosystems worldwide. Tropical coral reefs are outstanding for their beauty, diversity and complexity, but analogous types of bioconstructions are also present in temperate seas. The main bioconstructions in the Mediterranean Sea are represented by coralligenous formations, vermetid reefs, deep-sea cold-water corals, Lithophyllum byssoides trottoirs, coral banks formed by the shallow-water corals Cladocora caespitosa or Astroides calycularis, and sabellariid or serpulid worm reefs. Bioconstructions change the morphological and chemicophysical features of prima…

Conservation of Natural ResourcesAnthropogenic pressures; Biodiversity; Ecosystem engineers; Habitat formers; Animals; Conservation of Natural Resources; Italy; Mediterranean Sea; Biodiversity; Coral Reefs; Environmental Monitoring; Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics; Aquatic ScienceLithophyllum byssoides trottoirEvolutioncoral banksAnthropogenic pressuresAquatic SciencebioconstructionAnthropogenic pressures; Biodiversity; Ecosystem engineers; Habitat formers; Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics; Aquatic ScienceHabitat formerssabellariidcoralligenous formationsCORAL CLADOCORA-CAESPITOSA; MACROALGAL CORALLIGENOUS ASSEMBLAGES; SABELLARIA-ALVEOLATA LINNAEUS; NORTHERN ADRIATIC SEA; BETA-DIVERSITY; ASTROIDES-CALYCULARIS; OCEAN ACIDIFICATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; MASS-MORTALITY; HABITAT CHARACTERIZATIONbioconstructionsBehavior and SystematicsAnthropogenic pressureMediterranean SeaAnimalscoralligenous formationcoral bankConservation of Natural Resourcebioconstructions; coralligenous formations; vermetid reefs; deep-sea cold-water coral; Lithophyllum byssoides trottoirs; coral banks; sabellariid; serpulid worm reefsLithophyllum byssoides trottoirsEcologydeep-sea cold-water coralAnimalCoral Reefsserpulid worm reefsBiodiversityvermetid reefsEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicItalyEcosystem engineerEcosystem engineersHabitat formerCoral Reefvermetid reefEnvironmental Monitoring
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Calcification is not the Achilles' heel of cold-water corals in an acidifying ocean

2015

Ocean acidification is thought to be a major threat to coral reefs: laboratory evidence and CO2 seep research has shown adverse effects on many coral species, although a few are resilient. There are concerns that cold-water corals are even more vulnerable as they live in areas where aragonite saturation (?ara) is lower than in the tropics and is falling rapidly due to CO2 emissions. Here, we provide laboratory evidence that net (gross calcification minus dissolution) and gross calcification rates of three common cold-water corals, Caryophyllia smithii, Dendrophyllia cornigera, and Desmophyllum dianthus, are not affected by pCO2 levels expected for 2100 (pCO2 1058 ?atm, ?ara 1.29), and nor a…

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Supporting data of: Hydrography and food distribution during a tidal cycle above a cold-water coral mound

2022

This file contains the raw data and data analyses scripts to: Hydrography and food distribution during a tidal cycle above a cold-water coral mound Evert de Froe, Sandra R. Maier, Henriette G. Horn, George A. Wolff, Sabena Blackbird, Christian Mohn, Mads Schultz, Anna-Selma van der Kaaden, Chiu H. Cheng, Evi Wubben, Britt van Haastregt, Eva Friis Moller, Marc Lavaleye, Karline Soetaert, Gert-Jan Reichart, Dick van Oevelen. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 2022, ISSN 0967-0637, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103854. Abstract: Cold-water corals (CWCs) are important ecosystem engineers in the deep sea that provide habitat for numerous species and can form large cora…

Particulate organic matterBusiness Manager projecten Midden-NoordBenthic-pelagic couplingCold-water coralsInternal wavesBusiness Manager projects Mid-NorthDiurnal tidal cycleOrganic matter transport
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