Major environmental drivers determining life and death of cold-water corals through time

• Main Authors: Portilho-Ramos, Rodrigo Costa, Titschack, Jürgen, Wienberg, Claudia, Siccha, Michael, Yokoyama, Yusuke, Hebbeln, Dierk
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2021
• Subjects: ATLAS; A Trans-Atlantic assessment and deep-water ecosystem-based spatial management plan for Europe; benthic foraminiferal stable isotopes and Mg/Ca; bottom-water oxygenation; bottom-water temperature; climatic change; cold-water corals; Grain-size analyses; iAtlantic; Integrated Assessment of Atlantic Marine Ecosystems in Space and Time; Mediterranean Sea; North Atlantic Ocean; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.932775; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932775

Cold-water corals are the engineers of complex ecosystems forming unique biodiversity hot spots in the deep sea. They are expected to suffer dramatically from future environmental changes in the oceans such as ocean warming, food depletion, deoxygenation and acidification. However, during the instru...