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| Kazanidis, Georgios; Orejas, Covadonga; Borja, Angel; Kenchington, Ellen; Henry, Lea-anne; Callery, Oisín; Carreiro-silva, Marina; Egilsdottir, Hronn; Giacomello, Eva; Grehan, Anthony; Menot, Lenaick; Morato, Telmo; Ragnarsson, Stefán Áki; Rueda, José Luis; Stirling, David; Stratmann, Tanja; Van Oevelen, Dick; Palialexis, Andreas; Johnson, David; Roberts, J Murray. |
| The deep sea is the largest biome on Earth but the least explored. Our knowledge of it comes from scattered sources spanning different spatial and temporal scales. Implementation of marine policies like the European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and support for Blue Growth in the deep sea are therefore hindered by lack of data. Integrated assessments of environmental status require tools to work with different and disaggregated datasets (e.g. density of deep-sea habitat-forming species, body-size distribution of commercial fishes, intensity of bottom trawling) across spatial and temporal scales. A feasibility study was conducted as part of the four-year ATLAS project to assess the effectiveness of the open-access Nested Environmental... |
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Palavras-chave: Deep-sea environmental status; Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems; Indicators; Baselines; Marine Strategy Framework Directive; NEAT. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00651/76276/77241.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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| Gollner, Sabine; Kaiser, Stefanie; Menzel, Lena; Jones, Daniel O. B.; Brown, Alastair; Mestre, Nelia C.; Van Oevelen, Dick; Menot, Lenaick; Colaco, Ana; Canals, Miguel; Cuvelier, Daphne; Durden, Jennifer M.; Gebruk, Andrey; Egho, Great A.; Haeckel, Matthias; Marcon, Yann; Mevenkamp, Lisa; Morato, Telmo; Pham, Christopher K.; Purser, Autun; Sanchez-vidal, Anna; Vanreusel, Ann; Vink, Annemiek; Arbizu, Pedro Martinez. |
| With increasing demand for mineral resources, extraction of polymetallic sulphides at hydrothermal vents, cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts at seamounts, and polymetallic nodules on abyssal plains may be imminent. Here, we shortly introduce ecosystem characteristics of mining areas, report on recent mining developments, and identify potential stress and disturbances created by mining. We analyze species’ potential resistance to future mining and perform meta-analyses on population density and diversity recovery after disturbances most similar to mining: volcanic eruptions at vents, fisheries on seamounts, and experiments that mimic nodule mining on abyssal plains. We report wide variation in recovery rates among taxa, size, and mobility of fauna. While... |
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Palavras-chave: Deep ocean; Disturbance; Minerals; Mining; Abyssal plains; Hydrothermal vents; Seamounts; Resilience; Recovery; Benthos. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00382/49291/49690.pdf |
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| Gillis, Lucy G.; Ziegler, Alan D.; Van Oevelen, Dick; Cathalot, Cecile; Herman, Peter M. J.; Wolters, Jan W.; Bouma, Tjeerd J.. |
| Ecosystems in the tropical coastal zone exchange particulate organic matter (POM) with adjacent systems, but differences in this function among ecosystems remain poorly quantified. Seagrass beds are often a relatively small section of this coastal zone, but have a potentially much larger ecological influence than suggested by their surface area. Using stable isotopes as tracers of oceanic, terrestrial, mangrove and seagrass sources, we investigated the origin of particulate organic matter in nine mangrove bays around the island of Phuket (Thailand). We used a linear mixing model based on bulk organic carbon, total nitrogen and delta C-13 and delta N-15 and found that oceanic sources dominated suspended particulate organic matter samples along the... |
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| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00242/35335/33926.pdf |
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