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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... species 221 A.6 A.7 A video - grabbed image from one of the pockmark reefs at Kristin One of the early photographs taken on the HRC .. 222 223 A.8 Here is some detail from the HRC in 1997 .. 224 A.9 A beautiful Paragorgia arborea ...
... species. The corals, to say it melodramatically, represent the soul of the ocean, and the ocean is the mother of all life. Le Page, 1998 1.1 INTRODUCTION Norwegian and North Atlantic coral reefs are not only spectacular, but also very ...
... species are the stony corals ( scleractinians ) Lophelia pertusa ( Linnaeus , 1758 ) , Madrepora oculata ( Linnaeus , 1758 ) , and Desmophyllum cristagalli ( Milne - Edwards and Haime , 1848 ) . At least one large reef on the ...
... species ; i.e. , " seabed fluid flow " ) , the so - called " hydraulic theory ” . The main objectives of this book are to describe deep - water coral reefs experienced first - hand ; to review second - hand information amassed over 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 |