Deep-water Coral Reefs Unique Biodiversity Hot-Spots /

• Main Author: Hovland, Martin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Geology.; Oceanography.; Animal ecology.; Aquatic ecology.; Life Sciences.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.; Animal Ecology.

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 curre...

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.