Structure-Forming Corals and Sponges and Their Use as Fish Habitat in Bering Sea Submarine Canyons

• Main Authors: Robert J. Miller, John Hocevar, Robert P. Stone, Dmitry V. Fedorov
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Pacific; Pribilof Canyon
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.301.72; http://vision.ece.ucsb.edu/publications/fedorov_pone.0033885.pdf

Continental margins are dynamic, heterogeneous settings that can include canyons, seamounts, and banks. Two of the largest canyons in the world, Zhemchug and Pribilof, cut into the edge of the continental shelf in the southeastern Bering Sea. Here currents and upwelling interact to produce a highly...