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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... off mid - Norway and northern Norway Reefs in Breisunddjupet , near Ålesund 80 80 4.5.2 4.5.3 4.6 4.6.1 The Floholman reefs , with associated bacteria and gas ! The Malangsreef 81 88 Reefs on the continental edge 89 The Røst Reef ...
... off mid - Norway , at a water depth of 300 m . This mature Lophelia pertusa colony is about 2 m in diameter . ( pipelines , platforms , and well - templates , at the engineering department of Statoil , now Statoil Hydro ) , I have tried ...
... off mid - Norway , at a water depth of 300 m . The author Martin Hovland and biologist Pål B. Mortensen onboard the Seaway Commander ... X 2 1.2 The general seafloor off mid - Norway looks like this . 1.3 1.4 This image is from the ...
... off mid - Norway Oblique view of parts of the image shown in Figure 4.29 74 75 4.32 A section of the seafloor mapped using ROV - based MBE . 77 4.33 Morvin Lophelia reefs . 78 4.34 4.35 Acoustic evidence of prolific hydrocarbon seepage out ...
... onboard the Seaway Commander , in front of the ROV ( remotely operated vehicle ) Solo , located over the HRC reef off mid - Norway , 1993 . they refuse to write on aspects outside their own special. 2 Introduction [ Ch . 1.
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 |