Ecological niche modelling of cold-water corals in the Southern Ocean (N Antarctic), present distribution and future projections due to temperature changes

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Chaabani, Safa, López-González, Pablo J., Casado-Amezúa, Pilar, Pehlke, Hendrik, Weber, Lukas, Martínez-Baraldés, Irene, Jerosch, Kerstin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Filchner Trough; Queen Maud Land; South Orkney Islands; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/49891/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.7ff9be52-7ff3-43dc-ba00-d669fa28177f

Urgent necessity to understand the effect of climatic change on scleractinian cold-water coral (CWC) ecosystems arises from increasing ocean warming and acidification over the last decades. Here, presence-absence records of 12 scleractinian CWC species from research expeditions and literature were c...