Freiwald / Roberts Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-3-540-27673-9
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 1243 Seiten

Reihe: Erlangen Earth Conference Series

Cold-water coral ecosystems figure the formation of large seabed structures such as reefs and giant carbonate mounds; they represent unexplored paleo-environmental archives of earth history. Like their tropical cousins, cold-water coral ecosystems harbour rich species diversity. For this volume, key institutions in cold-water coral research have contributed 62 state-of-the-art articles on topics from geology and oceanography to biology and conservation, with some impressive underwater images.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freiwald, André

Roberts, J. Murray

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Foreword;5
2;Preface;7
3;Content;13
4;Contributors;20
5;I The paleoenvironmental context;32
5.1;Azooxanthellate corals in the Late Maastrichtian - Early Paleocene of the Danish basin: bryozoan and coral mounds in a boreal shelf setting;34
5.2;Corals from deep-water methane-seep deposits in Paleogene strata of Western Oregon and Washington, U. S. A.;57
5.3;Growth, deposition, and facies of Pleistocene bathyal coral communities from Rhodes, Greece;71
5.4;Enhanced biodiversity in the deep: Early Pleistocene coral communities from southern Italy;90
5.5;Sedimentary patterns in the vicinity of a carbonate mound in the Hovland Mound Province, northern Porcupine Seabight;116
5.6;Deep-water corals of the northeastern Atlantic margin: carbonate mound evolution and upper intermediate water ventilation during the Holocene;142
6;II Distribution;163
6.1;Deep coral growth in the Mediterranean Sea: an overview;165
6.2;U/Th-dating of deep-water corals from the eastern North Atlantic and the western Mediterranean Sea;185
6.3;Distribution and habitats of Acesta excavata ( Bivalvia: Limidae) with new data on its shell ultrastructure;201
6.4;Deep-water coral occurrences in the Strait of Gibraltar;234
6.5;An assessment of the distribution of deep-sea corals in Atlantic Canada by using both scientific and local forms of knowledge;249
6.6;Deep-water corals and their habitats in The Gully, a submarine canyon off Atlantic Canada;272
6.7;Distribution of deep-water Alcyonacea off the Northeast Coast of the United States;303
6.8;Occurrence of deep-water Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata in the Gulf of Mexico;321
6.9;Southern Caribbean azooxanthellate coral communities off Colombia;332
6.10;Habitat-forming deep-sea corals in the Northeast Pacific Ocean;354
6.11;Recent observations on the distribution of deep- sea coral communities on the Shiribeshi Seamount, Sea of Japan;367
7;III Mapping;379
7.1;Mapping of Lophelia reefs in Norway: experiences and survey methods;381
7.2;Deep-water coral mounds on the Porcupine Bank, Irish Margin: preliminary results from the Polarstern ARK- XIX/ 3a ROV cruise;414
7.3;New view of the Belgica Mounds, Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic: preliminary results from the Polarstern ARK- XIX/ 3a ROV cruise;424
7.4;Carbonate mounds off Mauritania, Northwest Africa: status of deep- water corals and implications for management of fi shing and oil exploration activities;437
7.5;Mapping, habitat characterization, and fish surveys of the deep- water Oculina coral reef Marine Protected Area: a review of historical and current research;462
7.6;Predicting habitat for two species of deep-water coral on the Canadian Atlantic continental shelf and slope;485
8;IV Exogenic and endogenic controls;498
8.1;Monitoring environmental variability around cold- water coral reefs: the use of a benthic photolander and the potential of seafl oor observatories;500
8.2;Deep-water coral development as a function of hydrodynamics and surface productivity around the submarine banks of the Rockall Trough, NE Atlantic;520
8.3;Development of coral banks in Porcupine Seabight: do they have Mediterranean ancestors?;532
8.4;The seabed appearance of different coral bank provinces in the Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic: results from sidescan sonar and ROV seabed mapping;551
8.5;Sedimentary processes and carbonate mounds in the Belgica Mound province, Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic;586
8.6;Sponge reefs in the Queen Charlotte Basin, Canada: controls on distribution, growth and development;619
8.7;Pockmark-associated coral reefs at the Kristin field off Mid- Norway;636
8.8;Sedimentological and geochemical environment of the Fugløy Reef off northern Norway;646
9;V Coral Biology;664
9.1;Molecular ecology of Lophelia pertusa in the NE Atlantic;666
9.2;Population genetic structure of the Hawaiian precious coral Corallium lauuense ( Octocorallia: Coralliidae) using microsatellites;676
9.3;Genetic circumscription of deep-water coral species in Canada using 18S rRNA;692
9.4;Deep-water Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa): current knowledge of reproductive processes;704
9.5;Reproductive ecology of three reef-forming, deep- sea corals in the New Zealand region;714
9.6;Lipids and nitrogen isotopes of two deep-water corals from the North- East Atlantic: initial results and implications for their nutrition;727
9.7;Calcifying extracellular mucus substances (EMS) of Madrepora oculata – a first geobiological approach;742
10;VI Diversity;756
10.1;Are deep-water corals important habitats for fishes?;758
10.2;A habitat classification scheme for seamount landscapes: assessing the functional role of deep- water corals as fish habitat;772
10.3;Role of cold-water Lophelia pertusa coral reefs as fish habitat in the NE Atlantic;781
10.4;Remarkable sessile fauna associated with deep coral and other calcareous substrates in the Strait of Sicily, Mediterranean Sea;816
10.5;The metazoan meiofauna associated with a cold-water coral degradation zone in the Porcupine Seabight ( NE Atlantic);829
10.6;Distribution and diversity of species associated with deep- sea gorgonian corals off Atlantic Canada;856
10.7;Attached benthic Foraminifera as indicators of past and present distribution of the coral Primnoa resedaeformis on the Scotian Margin;887
10.8;Preliminary study of bioerosion in the deep-water coral Lophelia, Pleistocene, Rhodes, Greece;901
10.9;Bioerosion patterns in a deep-water Lophelia pertusa ( Scleractinia) thicket ( Propeller Mound, northern Porcupine Seabight);921
10.10;Shallow-water Desmophyllum dianthus ( Scleractinia) from Chile: characteristics of the biocoenoses, the bioeroding community, heterotrophic interactions and ( paleo)- bathymetric implications;943
10.11;The physical niche of the bathyal Lophelia pertusa in a non- bathyal setting: environmental controls and palaeoecological implications;984
11;VII Environmental archive;1007
11.1;C and O isotopes in a deep-sea coral (Lophelia pertusa) related to skeletal microstructure;1009
11.2;Investigations of age and growth for three deep-sea corals from the Davidson Seamount off central California;1025
11.3;Testing the reproducibility of Mg/Ca profiles in the deep- water coral Primnoa resedaeformis: putting the proxy through its paces;1043
11.4;Skeletal Mg/Ca in Primnoa resedaeformis: relationship to temperature?;1065
11.5;Paleotemperatures from deep-sea corals: scale effects;1084
11.6;Climate records from the Faroe-Shetland Channel using Lophelia pertusa ( Linnaeus, 1758);1100
11.7;High-resolution trace and minor element compositions in deep- water scleractinian corals ( Desmophyllum dianthus) from the Mediterranean Sea and the Great Australian Bight;1112
12;VIII Conservation;1130
12.1;Identifying critical information needs and developing institutional partnerships to further the understanding of Atlantic deep- sea coral ecosystems;1132
12.2;Oceana’s efforts to protect deep-sea coral in the United States;1144
12.3;A cost effective approach to protecting deep-sea coral and sponge ecosystems with an application to Alaska’s Aleutian Islands region;1153
12.4;Conservation and management implications of deep- sea coral and fishing effort distributions in the Northeast Pacific Ocean;1172
12.5;Deep-sea corals and resource protection at the Davidson Seamount, California, U. S. A.;1189
12.6;Conserving corals in Atlantic Canada: a historical perspective;1199
13;Index;1210