Cold-water coral reefs thriving under hypoxia
Abstract Reefs formed by scleractinian cold-water corals represent unique biodiversity hot spots in the deep sea, preferring aphotic water depths of 200–1000 m. The distribution of the most prominent reef-building species Lophelia pertusa is controlled by various environmental factors including diss...
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crspringernat:10.1007/s00338-020-01934-6 2023-05-15T17:08:41+02:00 Cold-water coral reefs thriving under hypoxia Hebbeln, Dierk Wienberg, Claudia Dullo, Wolf-Christian Freiwald, André Mienis, Furu Orejas, Covadonga Titschack, Jürgen Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-01934-6 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00338-020-01934-6.pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00338-020-01934-6/fulltext.html en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Coral Reefs volume 39, issue 4, page 853-859 ISSN 0722-4028 1432-0975 Aquatic Science journal-article 2020 crspringernat https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-01934-6 2022-01-04T15:28:58Z Abstract Reefs formed by scleractinian cold-water corals represent unique biodiversity hot spots in the deep sea, preferring aphotic water depths of 200–1000 m. The distribution of the most prominent reef-building species Lophelia pertusa is controlled by various environmental factors including dissolved oxygen concentrations and temperature. Consequently, the expected ocean deoxygenation and warming triggered by human-induced global change are considered as a serious threat to cold-water coral reefs. Here, we present results on recently discovered reefs in the SE Atlantic, where L. pertusa thrives in hypoxic and rather warm waters. This sheds new light on its capability to adapt to extreme conditions, which is facilitated by high surface ocean productivity, resulting in extensive food supply. Putting our data in an Atlantic-wide perspective clearly demonstrates L. pertusa ’s ability to develop population-specific adaptations, which are up to now hardly considered in assessing its present and future distributions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Lophelia pertusa Springer Nature (via Crossref) Coral Reefs 39 4 853 859 |
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Abstract Reefs formed by scleractinian cold-water corals represent unique biodiversity hot spots in the deep sea, preferring aphotic water depths of 200–1000 m. The distribution of the most prominent reef-building species Lophelia pertusa is controlled by various environmental factors including dissolved oxygen concentrations and temperature. Consequently, the expected ocean deoxygenation and warming triggered by human-induced global change are considered as a serious threat to cold-water coral reefs. Here, we present results on recently discovered reefs in the SE Atlantic, where L. pertusa thrives in hypoxic and rather warm waters. This sheds new light on its capability to adapt to extreme conditions, which is facilitated by high surface ocean productivity, resulting in extensive food supply. Putting our data in an Atlantic-wide perspective clearly demonstrates L. pertusa ’s ability to develop population-specific adaptations, which are up to now hardly considered in assessing its present and future distributions. |
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Hebbeln, Dierk Wienberg, Claudia Dullo, Wolf-Christian Freiwald, André Mienis, Furu Orejas, Covadonga Titschack, Jürgen |
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Cold-water coral reefs thriving under hypoxia |
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