Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future
Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future

Author: Covadonga Orejas

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-07-10

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 3319916084

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What do we know about Mediterranean Cold (Deep)-Water coral ecosystems? In this book, specialists offer answers and insights with a series of chapters and short papers about the paleoecology, biology, physiology and ecology of the corals and other organisms that comprise these ecosystems. Structured on a temporal axis—Past, Present and Future—the reviews and selected study cases cover the cold and deep coral habitats known to date in the Mediterranean Basin. This book illustrates and explains the deep Mediterranean coral habitats that might have originated similar thriving ecosystems in today’s Atlantic Ocean.

Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems
Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems

Author: André Freiwald

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-01-17

Total Pages: 1242

ISBN-13: 3540276734

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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.