Overview
- This is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging investigation of cold-water corals ever
- Understanding these hotspots of biodiversity and elemental cycling is critical to projecting changes in our oceans
- Cold-water coral reefs are more abundant and wide-spread than shallow-water coral reefs
Part of the book series: Coral Reefs of the World (CORW, volume 19)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Cold-water corals form reef structures in continental margin and seamount settings world-wide, making them more wide-spread and abundant than shallow-water reefs. Their role in these ecosystems is no less important than the influence that shallow-water coral reefs have on tropical systems. They create habitat structure, host endemic species, enhance elemental cycling, alter current flow, sequester carbon, and provide many other ecosystem services that we are just beginning to understand. The rapidly evolving state of knowledge of cold-water and deep-sea coral reefs has not been compiled in over 10 years. This volume synthesizes recent and historical information, reveals new findings from reefs that have been discovered only recently, and presents key avenues for future research. We are on the cusp of understanding the critical role that cold-water coral reefs play in the world’s oceans, and this book lays the foundation on which this knowledge will be built in the future.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Furu Mienis is a scientist at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in the department of ocean systems. She has participated in over 30 research cruises, the majority of which were carried out to study cold-water coral reefs in the Atlantic. She mainly studies the environmental conditions and dynamics that influence the functioning of these vulnerable ecosystems in the deep sea.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cold-Water Coral Reefs of the World
Editors: Erik Cordes, Furu Mienis
Series Title: Coral Reefs of the World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40897-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40896-0Published: 28 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40899-1Due: 28 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-40897-7Published: 27 December 2023
Series ISSN: 2213-719X
Series E-ISSN: 2213-7203
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 293
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 99 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ecology, Biodiversity, Environmental Management, Oceanography, Environmental Management, Oceanography