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oapen-20.500.12657-768312023-10-17T02:09:56Z Chapter The North-east Atlantic Margin Morrissey, Declan Lim, Aaron Howell, Kerry L. White, Martin Wheeler, Andrew J. Louise Allcock, A. Cold-water Coral Reefs Sponge Aggregations Coral Gardens Deep Sea Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNC Applied ecology bic Book Industry Communication::W Lifestyle, sport & leisure::WN Natural history::WNW The Earth: natural history general bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RB Earth sciences::RBK Hydrology & the hydrosphere::RBKC Oceanography (seas) bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TQ Environmental science, engineering & technology bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNP Pollution & threats to the environment::RNPG Climate change bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSP Hydrobiology::PSPM Marine biology The Irish–Scottish margin is geologically and oceanographically heterogeneous. Source waters of subpolar and subtropical origin interact with banks, seamounts, submarine canyon systems, escarpments, and mound provinces resulting in rich and diverse benthic communities that are influenced by local and regional hydrodynamics (e.g., internal waves, tides, and local turbulence). Reef habitats formed by the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum are particularly well studied, such that controls on reef and mound formation are relatively well understood. The distribution of some other Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs), such as sponge fields formed by Pheronema carpenteri, and xenophyophore aggregations, is known due to both field observations and predictive modelling. Some VMEs are poorly known, for example, coral gardens, where in many cases even the characteristic species are not fully identified. The autecology of some component species has been studied, but for others, knowledge is almost completely lacking. The evidence for increased biodiversity associated with all these habitats is clear and all suffer anthropogenic impacts. 2023-10-16T09:44:23Z 2023-10-16T09:44:23Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20231016_9781032426969_5 9781032426969 9781032548456 9781003363873 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76831 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781003363873_10.1201_9781003363873-5.pdf Taylor & Francis Oceanography and Marine Biology CRC Press 10.1201/9781003363873-6 10.1201/9781003363873-6 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb a56f7fb8-e1e2-4255-8dc7-83834c7e9de5 c2a08dce-0108-4a92-8567-bc0eb112c8ca 9781032426969 9781032548456 9781003363873 CRC Press 73 Boca Raton, Abingdon [...] open access
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The Irish–Scottish margin is geologically and oceanographically heterogeneous. Source waters of subpolar and subtropical origin interact with banks, seamounts, submarine canyon systems, escarpments, and mound provinces resulting in rich and diverse benthic communities that are influenced by local and regional hydrodynamics (e.g., internal waves, tides, and local turbulence). Reef habitats formed by the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum are particularly well studied, such that controls on reef and mound formation are relatively well understood. The distribution of some other Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs), such as sponge fields formed by Pheronema carpenteri, and xenophyophore aggregations, is known due to both field observations and predictive modelling. Some VMEs are poorly known, for example, coral gardens, where in many cases even the characteristic species are not fully identified. The autecology of some component species has been studied, but for others, knowledge is almost completely lacking. The evidence for increased biodiversity associated with all these habitats is clear and all suffer anthropogenic impacts.
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