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  title info:
    title: Deep-water Coral Reefs
    sub title: Unique Biodiversity Hot-Spots
  name:
    name part: Hovland, Martin.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXVI, 278 p. online resource.
  abstract: Deep-water coral reefs are found along large sections of the outer continental shelves and slopes of Europe, from North Cape to the Gulf of Cadiz, and because they also occur along the Atlantic seaboard of USA, the Gulf of Mexico, off Brazil, in the Mediterranean, and off New Zealand, they are currently being targeted by international groups of marine scientists. They have become popular and opportune deep-water research targets because they offer exciting frontier exploration, combined with a whole plethora of modern scientific methods, such as deep-sea drilling, sampling, remote control surveying and documentation. Furthermore they represent timely opportunities for further developments within the application of geochemistry, stable isotope research, bacterial sciences, including DNA-sequestering, and medical research (search for bioactive compounds). The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) has arranged a deep-sea scientific drilling campaign on giant carbonate banks off Ireland. Because the reefs currently defy traditional marine-ecological theories, they represent future research opportunities and will enjoy scientific scrutiny for many years to come.
  table of contents: Coral reefs -- A modern re-discovery -- Scandinavian coral reefs -- North Atlantic coral reefs and giant carbonate mounds -- Other deep-water coral reefs, worldwide -- Ancient and modern analogues -- Competing theories -- An unintended extinction? -- Conclusions.
  note: by Martin Hovland.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  subject:
    topic: Animal ecology
  subject:
    topic: Aquatic ecology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Freshwater & Marine Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Animal Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
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      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9781402084607
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8460-7
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204170053.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4020-8460-7