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

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Miller, Robert J., Hocevar, John, Stone, Robert P., Fedorov, Dmitry V.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2012
• Subjects: Research Article; Bering Sea; Pacific; Pribilof Canyon
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3309998; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22470486; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033885

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...