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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... nutrients feed into one of the HRC reefs and into the water column . . . 4.17 4.18 4.19 An artistic photo - montage showing a fossil deep - water Devonian reef . . . The Sula Reef and the HRC reefs shown on a shaded digital terrain ...
... nutrient source, or apparent help from endosymbionts.1 Deep-water coral reefs represent important living, three-dimensional structures in the North Atlantic Ocean and elsewhere. However, one should not think so, when reading some of the ...
... nutrients . The polyps turn pale and starve . If they don't get their zooxanthellae back in a month or so , they die " ( Stone , 2007 ) . The most remarkable feature of deep - water corals is the absence of the algal endosymbionts , the ...
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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 |