Dense cold‐water coral garden of paragorgia johnsoni suggests the importance of the Mid‐atlantic ridge for deep‐sea biodiversity

Mid-ocean ridges generate a myriad of physical oceanographic processes that favor the supply of food and nutrients to suspension- and filter-feeding organisms, such as cold-water corals and deep-sea sponges. However, the pioneering work conducted along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge failed to report the pre...

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Main Author: Morato, Telmo (author)
Other Authors: Dominguez-Carrió, Carlos (author), Mohn, Christian (author), Ocaña Vicente, Oscar (author), Ramos, Manuela (author), Rodrigues, Luís (author), Sampaio, Íris (author), Tarnto, A. G. (author), Fauconnet, Laurence (author), Tojeira, Ines (author), Gonçalves, Emanuel J. (author), Silva, Marina Carreiro (author)
Format: article
Language:por
Published: 2022
Subjects:
Biological conservation
Cold-water corals
Deep sea
Mid-atlantic ridge
Oceanographic processes
Vulnerable marine ecosystem
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/8421
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ispa.pt:10400.12/8421

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/8421

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