Deep-water Coral Reefs: Unique Biodiversity Hot-SpotsDeep-water coral reefs are found along large sections of the outer continental shelves and slopes of Europe, from North Cape to the Gulf of Cadiz, and because they also occur along the Atlantic seaboard of USA, the Gulf of Mexico, off Brazil, in the Mediterranean, and off New Zealand, they are currently being targeted by international groups of marine scientists. They have become popular and opportune deep-water research targets because they offer exciting frontier exploration, combined with a whole plethora of modern scientific methods, such as deep-sea drilling, sampling, remote control surveying and documentation. Furthermore they represent timely opportunities for further developments within the application of geochemistry, stable isotope research, bacterial sciences, including DNA-sequestering, and medical research (search for bioactive compounds). The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) has arranged a deep-sea scientific drilling campaign on giant carbonate banks off Ireland. Because the reefs currently defy traditional marine-ecological theories, they represent future research opportunities and will enjoy scientific scrutiny for many years to come. |
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... different rules . Few of us have had the experience of discovering that the rules that had been guiding our research for the past years or decades were all wrong , that the predictions of our theories were wrong , that the assumptions ...
... different Norwegian coral reefs . 41 4.2 An artist's impression of the Seaway Commander located above the prominent Lophelia reefs on the Agdenes morainic ridge 42 4.3 Photograph of resting Sebastes sp . 43 4.4 Bright - spots ( black ...
... different colony . . . 98 99 4.56 Map over parts of the northwest Atlantic margin showing the Faroe Islands , the Rockall bank , and adjacent areas 100 4.57 5.1 A rare photograph of a great fork - beard ( Phycis blennoides ) . One of ...
... different climate : " Modern coral reefs are built primarily by scleractinian corals , which arose in the Triassic after the Permian extinction . Today , all of these corals form skeletons of aragonite , and this composition has been ...
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Contents
Introduction | 13 |
1 | 39 |
5 | 80 |
6 | 89 |
5 | 103 |
3 | 129 |
6 | 140 |
7 | 163 |
5 | 186 |
13 | 198 |
9 | 202 |
Corals inside a pockmark Troll field | 208 |
An unintended extinction? | 210 |
Conclusions | 216 |
14 | 230 |
B Epilogue | 232 |