Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future Understanding the Deep-Sea Realms of Coral /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Orejas, Covadonga (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Jiménez, Carlos (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Coral Reefs of the World, 9
• Subjects: Conservation biology.; Ecology .; Oceanography.; Biodiversity.; Marine sciences.; Freshwater.; Aquatic ecology .; Conservation Biology/Ecology.; Marine & Freshwater Sciences.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.

What do we know about Mediterranean Cold (Deep)-Water coral ecosystems? In this book, specialists offer answers and insights with a series of chapters and short papers about the paleoecology, biology, physiology and ecology of the corals and other organisms that comprise these ecosystems. Structured...

Table of Contents:

• 1. An introduction to the research on Mediterranean cold-water corals
• PART I - Past
• 2. Paleoecology of Mediterranean cold-water corals
• 3. Drop chapter. Cold water corals in the Mediterranean: a history of discovery
• 4. A turbulent story: Mediterranean contourites and cold-water corals
• 5. Drop chapter. Messinian salinity crisis: what happened to cold-water corals?
• 6. Drop chapter. Did Quaternary climate fluctuations affect Mediterranean deep-sea coral communities?
• 7. Drop chapter. A deglacial cold-water coral boom in the Alborán Sea: from coral mounds and species dominance
• 8. Drop chapter. Highly variable submarine landscapes in the Alborán Sea created by cold-water corals
• 9. Spatio-temporal distribution of Mediterranean cold-water corals
• 10. Drop chapter. Bathyal corals within the Aegean Sea and the adjacent Hellenic trench
• 11. Mediterranean cold-water corals as paleoclimate archives
• 12. Drop chapter: Tomography of cold-water corals - bearing cores
• 13. Drop chapter. Changing views about Mediterranean cold-water corals
• PART II - Present
• 14. Taxonomy, genetics and biodiversity of Mediterranean deep-sea corals and cold-water corals
• 15. Habitat mapping of cold-water corals in the Mediterranean Sea
• 16. Cold-water coral habitat mapping in the Mediterranean Sea: methodologies and perspectives
• 17. Drop chapter. Working with visual methods, comparison among the French deep-sea canyons
• 18. Review of the circulation and characteristics of intermediate water masses of the Mediterranean--implications for cold-water coral habitats
• 19. Occurrence and biogeography of Mediterranean cold-water corals
• 20. Drop chapter. Gorgonian and black coral assemblages in deep coastal bottoms and continental shelves of the Mediterranean Sea
• 21. Drop chapter. Mediterranean black coral communities
• 22. Drop chapter. Recent discoveries of extensive cold-water coral assemblages in Maltese waters
• 23. Drop chapter. Corals of Aphrodite: Dendrophyllia ramea populations of Cyprus
• 24. Drop chapter. Cold-water corals in fluid venting submarine structures
• 25. Drop chapter. Cold-water corals and mud volcanoes - life on a dynamic substrate
• 26. Occurrence of living cold-water corals at large depths within submarine canyons of the northwestern Mediterranean Sea
• 27. Drop chapter. Submarine canyons in the Mediterranean: a shelter for cold-water corals
• 28. Drop chapter. A cold-water coral habitat in La Fonera submarine canyon, northwestern Mediterranean Sea
• 29. Cold-water coral associated fauna in the Mediterranean Sea and adjacent areas
• 30. Cold-water corals as shelter, feeding and life-history critical habitats for fish species: ecological interactions and fishing impact
• 31. Past, present and future connectivity of Mediterranean cold-water corals: patterns, drivers and fate in a technically and environmentally changing world
• 32. Drop chapter. Desmophyllum dianthus genetics and more
• 33. Diversity of bacteria associated with the cold-water corals Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata
• 34. Drop chapter. Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata: An Archaea riddle?
• 35. Biology and ecophysiology of Mediterranean cold-water corals
• 36. Growth patterns of Mediterranean calcifying cold-water corals
• 37. Demography and conservation of deep corals: the study of population structure and dynamics
• 38. Cold-water coral in aquaria: advances and challenges. A focus on the Mediterranean
• 39. Drop chapter. Approaching cold-water corals to the society: novel ways to transfer knowledge
• PART III - Future
• 40. Perspectives of biophysical modelling with implications on biological connectivity of Mediterranean cold-water corals
• 41. Drop chapter. The interface between tectonic evolution and cold-water coral dynamics in the Mediterranean
• 42. Drop chapter. The Mediterranean is getting saltier: from the past to the future
• 43. Drop chapter. The spread of non-indigenous species in the Mediterranean - a threat to cold-water corals?
• 44. Fate of Mediterranean scleractinian cold-water corals as a result of global climate change. A synthesis. - 45. Drop chapter. A case study: variability in the calcification response of Mediterranean cold-water corals to ocean acidification
• 46. Conservation of cold-water corals in the Mediterranean: current status and future prospects for improvement.