Bathymetrical distribution and size structure of cold-water coral populations in the Cap de Creus and Lacaze-Duthiers canyons (northwestern Mediterranean)

• Published in: Biogeosciences
• Main Authors: Gori, Andrea, Orejas, Covadonga, Madurell, Teresa, Bramanti, Lorenzo, Martins, María, Quintanilla, Elena, Marti-Puig, Patricia, Lo-Iacono, Claudio, Puig, Pere, Requena-Moreno, Susana, Greenacre, Michael, Gili, Josep María
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Medio Marino; Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares; Cold-water corals; NW Mediterranean; Gulf of Lions; bathymetrical distribution; benthic communities; Lophelia pertusa; Madrepora oculata; Duthiers; Lacaze-Duthiers
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/8581; http://hdl.handle.net/10261/317793; https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-2049-2013

Submarine canyons are known as one of the seafloor morphological features where living cold-water coral (CWC) communities develop in the Mediterranean Sea. We investigated the CWC community of the two westernmost submarine canyons of the Gulf of Lions canyon system: the Cap de Creus Canyon (CCC) and...