The cold‐water coral community as hotspot of carbon cycling on continental margins: A food‐web analysis from Rockall Bank (northeast Atlantic)

• Published in: Limnology and Oceanography
• Main Authors: Oevelen, Dick van, Duineveld, Gerard, Lavaleye, Marc, Mienis, Furu, Soetaert, Karline, Heip, Carlo H. R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2009
• Subjects: Rockall Bank; Lophelia pertusa; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4319/lo.2009.54.6.1829; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.4319%2Flo.2009.54.6.1829; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.4319/lo.2009.54.6.1829; https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.4319/lo.2009.54.6.1829

We present a quantitative food‐web analysis of the cold‐water coral community, i.e., the assembly of living corals, dead coral branches and sediment beneath, associated with the reef‐building Lophelia pertusa on the giant carbonate mounds at ~800‐m depth at Rockall Bank. Carbon flows, 140 flows amon...