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Title: | Occurrence of Living Cold-Water Corals at Large Depths Within Submarine Canyons of the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea |
Authors: | Aymà Padrós, Anna ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Keywords: | Northwestern Mediterranean Sea Submarine canyons Cold-water corals (CWC) Deep water Remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Agassiz trawl (AGT) |
Issue Date: | 2019 |
Publisher: | Springer |
Citation: | Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future 26: 271-284 (2019) |
Series: | Coral Reefs of the World 9 |
Abstract: | In the northwestern Mediterranean Sea, cold-water corals Madrepora oculata, Lophelia pertusa, Dendrophyllia cornigera and Desmophyllum dianthus have been mostly described at relatively shallow depths (i.e. <400 m). Here, we report the results of the inspection of the large, deeply incised Cap de Creus, La Fonera and Blanes submarine canyons in order to assess the presence of cold-water corals at depths between 600 and 1500 m. Two complementary methodologies were applied: remotely operated vehicle dives for in situ observation, and Agassiz trawls to get biological samples. Remotely operated vehicle videos pictured aggregations of specimens of the solitary D. dianthus at 1409 m depth in La Fonera Canyon, which seemed to be alive. This is the first in situ observation of this species at such depths in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Agassiz trawl samples provided living M. oculata and L. pertusa in Blanes Canyon at 1200 and 900 m depth, respectively. They also yielded living D. dianthus in Cap de Creus Canyon at 900 m and in Blanes Canyon at 900 and 1200 m depth. Jointly with other recently published results, our findings demonstrate that submarine canyons in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea host significant cold-water coral populations, locally extending to water depths below 1000 m |
Description: | 14 pages |
Publisher version (URL): | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91608-8_26 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/210548 |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-91608-8_26 |
Identifiers: | isbn: 978-3-319-91607-1 isbn: 978-3-319-91608-8 2008-2019 |
Appears in Collections: | (ICM) Libros y partes de libros |
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