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| Kroencke, Ingrid; Reiss, Henning; Eggleton, Jacqueline D.; Aldridge, John; Bergman, Magda J. N.; Cochrane, Sabine; Craeymeersch, Johan A.; Degraer, Steven; Desroy, Nicolas; Dewarumez, Jean-marie; Duineveld, Gerard C. A.; Essink, Karel; Hillewaert, Hans; Lavaleye, Marc S. S.; Moll, Andreas; Nehring, Stefan; Newell, Richard; Oug, Eivind; Pohlmann, Thomas; Rachor, Eike; Robertson, Mike; Rumohr, Heye; Schratzberger, Michaela; Smith, Rebecca; Berghe, Edward Vanden; Van Dalfsen, Jan; Van Hoey, Gert; Vincx, Magda; Willems, Wouter; Rees, Hubert L.. |
| The North Sea Benthos Project 2000 was initiated as a follow-up to the 1986 ICES North Sea Benthos Survey with the major aim to identify changes in the macrofauna species distribution and community structure in the North Sea and their likely causes. The results showed that the large-scale spatial distribution of macrofauna communities in the North Sea hardly changed between 1986 and 2000, with the main divisions at the 50 m and 100 m depth contours. Water temperature and salinity as well as wave exposure, tidal stress and primary production were influential environmental factors on a large (North Sea-wide) spatial scale. The increase in abundance and regional changes in distribution of various species with a southern distribution in the North Sea in 2000... |
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Palavras-chave: Long-term variability; Distribution shift; NAOI; Regime shift; Non-native species; Benthic communities. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00043/15428/12888.pdf |
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| Cathalot, Cecile; Van Oevelen, Dick; Cox, Tom J.s.; Kutti, Tina; Lavaleye, Marc S. S.; Duineveld, Gca; Meysman, Filip J. R.. |
| Cold-water coral reefs and adjacent sponge grounds are distributed widely in the deep ocean, where only a small fraction of the surface productivity reaches the seafloor as detritus. It remains elusive how these hotspots of biodiversity can thrive in such a food-limited environment, as data on energy flow and organic carbon utilization are critically lacking. Here we report in situ community respiration rates for cold-water coral and sponge ecosystems obtained by the non-invasive aquatic Eddy Correlation technique. Oxygen uptake rates over coral reefs and adjacent sponge grounds in the Træna Coral Field (Norway) were 9–20 times higher than those of the surrounding soft sediments. These high respiration rates indicate strong organic matter consumption, and... |
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Palavras-chave: Deep-seaecosystems; Cold-watercorals; Sponges; Respiration; Energyflow. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00275/38574/37099.pdf |
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| Compton, Tanya J.; Troost, Tineke A.; Van Der Meer, Jaap; Kraan, Casper; Honkoop, Pieter J. C.; Rogers, Danny I.; Pearson, Grant B.; De Goeij, Petra; Bocher, Pierrick; Lavaleye, Marc S. S.; Leyrer, Jutta; Yates, Mick G.; Dekinga, Anne; Piersma, Theunis. |
| Diverse species assemblages are often associated with a diversity of habitat structures. Sedimentary systems seem to be no exception, as within sedimentary systems benthic species diversity within a sample point appears to correlate with sediment grain size complexity. However, it remains to be shown whether total benthic species diversity relates to a system's sediment heterogeneity across multiple systems. In the present paper we examined whether bivalve diversity is associated with: (1) sediment heterogeneity across systems and (2) sediment grain size complexity within systems, at 9 temperate and tropical tidal flat systems. Although bivalve life-history strategies, like post-settlement habitat selection, might suggest that sediment heterogeneity should... |
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Palavras-chave: Aiguillon Bay; Marennes Oleron Bay; Mont Saint Michel Bay; Wadden Sea; The Wash; Roebuck Bay; Banc d'Arguin; Sediment diversity. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2008/publication-6141.pdf |
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