The White Coral Community in the Central Mediterranean Sea Revealed by ROV Surveys
| Autor: | Lydia Beuck, André Freiwald, Dierk Hebbeln, Marco Taviani, Andreas Rüggeberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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0106 biological sciences
cental Mediterranean Sea 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences carbonate mound Coral white coral communities Atoll HERMES DEEP-WATER FORMATION IONIAN SEA Oceanography HERMES project 01 natural sciences deep-sea coral lcsh:Oceanography scleractinian coral Mediterranean sea Lophelia BARI CANYON Mediterranean Sea lcsh:GC1-1581 14. Life underwater ROV surveys white coral Reef 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Madrepora oculata geography geography.geographical_feature_category biology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology LOPHELIA-PERTUSA SCLERACTINIA CARBONATE MOUNDS Coral reef biology.organism_classification coral reef Environmental issues with coral reefs Geology |
| Zdroj: | Oceanography, 22 (1). pp. 58-74. Scopus-Elsevier Oceanography, Vol 22, Iss 1, Pp 58-74 (2009) Oceanography (Wash. D.C.) 22(1) (2009): 58–74. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.1763 info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Freiwald A. (1), Beuck L. (1), Ruggeberg A. (2), Taviani M. (3), Hebbeln D. (4)/titolo:The white coral community in the central Mediterranean Sea revealed by ROV surveys./doi:10.1098%2Frspb.2011.1763/rivista:Oceanography (Wash. D.C.)/anno:2009/pagina_da:58/pagina_a:74/intervallo_pagine:58–74/volume:22(1) ResearcherID Journal of oceanography 22(1) (2009): 58–74. info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Freiwald A (1), Beuck L (1), Rueggeberg A (2), Taviani M (3), Hebbeln D (4)/titolo:The WHITE CORAL COMMUNITY in the Central Mediterranean Sea Revealed by ROV Surveys/doi:/rivista:Journal of oceanography/anno:2009/pagina_da:58/pagina_a:74/intervallo_pagine:58–74/volume:22(1) |
| DOI: | 10.1098/rspb.2011.1763 |
| Popis: | White coral communities consist of scleractinian corals that thrive in the ocean's bathyal depths (similar to 200-4000 m). In the Atlantic Ocean, white corals are known to form complex, three-dimensional structures on the seabed that attract vast amounts of other organisms, accumulate suspended detritus, and influence the local hydrodynamic flow field. These attributes coincide with what we generally describe as a coral reef. With time, environmental change causes decline of the framework-constructing corals; this is followed by erosion of the reef sequence or its draping with noncoral-related deposits. After several such sequences, the structures are known as coral carbonate mounds, which can grow as high as 350 m. Both bathyal white coral carbonate mounds, which can grow as high as 350 m. Both bathyal white coral reefs and mounds are widely distributed in the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent marginal seas, such as the Gulf of Mexico. The Mediterranean Sea, however, known for its richness of fossil white coral communities exposed in land outcrops, harbors very few extant coral communities. The HERMES project extended its study sites deep into the Mediterranean with state-of-the-art mapping and visualization technology. By doing so, many previously unknown coral sites were discovered during inspections of Mediterranean narrow shelves, canyon walls, escarpments, and seamounts by remotely operated vehicles. Such shelf and continental margin settings are characteristic of the dynamic margins of the Mediterranean Sea and contrast significantly with the much broader shelves of the Atlantic Ocean. This paper reports on a HERMES cruise that was dedicated to exploring these rough submarine topographies in search of white coral communities in the central Mediterranean, and re-evaluates the general perception of the assumed paucity of white corals in this sea. |
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