Environmental forcing of the Campeche cold-water coral province, southern Gulf of Mexico (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Environmental forcing of the Campeche cold-water coral province, southern Gulf of Mexico (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2014-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.5194/bg-11-1799-2014 (literal)
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  • Hebbeln D.; Wienberg C.; Wintersteller P.; Freiwald A.; Becker M.; Beuck L.; Dullo C.; Eberli G.P.; Glogowski S.; Matos L.; Forster N.; Reyes-Bonilla H.; Taviani M. (2014)
    Environmental forcing of the Campeche cold-water coral province, southern Gulf of Mexico
    in Biogeosciences (Online)
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  • Hebbeln D.; Wienberg C.; Wintersteller P.; Freiwald A.; Becker M.; Beuck L.; Dullo C.; Eberli G.P.; Glogowski S.; Matos L.; Forster N.; Reyes-Bonilla H.; Taviani M. (literal)
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  • Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), University of Miami, Miami, AZ, United States; Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany; Centro de Estudos Do Ambiente e Do Mar (CESAM), Aveiro, Portugal; Senckenberg Am Meer, Marine Research Department, Wilhelmshaven, Germany; Universidad Autónoma de Baja California sur, La Paz, Mexico; Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States (literal)
Titolo
  • Environmental forcing of the Campeche cold-water coral province, southern Gulf of Mexico (literal)
Abstract
  • With an extension of > 40 km2 the recently discovered Campeche cold-water coral province located at the northeastern rim of the Campeche Bank in the southern Gulf of Mexico belongs to the largest coherent cold-water coral areas discovered so far. The Campeche province consists of numerous 20-40 m-high elongated coral mounds that are developed in intermediate water depths of 500 to 600 m. The mounds are colonized by a vivid cold-water coral ecosystem that covers the upper flanks and summits. The rich coral community is dominated by the framework-building ScleractiniaEnallopsammia profundaandLophelia pertusa, while the associated benthic megafauna shows a rather scarce occurrence. The recent environmental setting is characterized by a high surface water production caused by a local upwelling center and a dynamic bottom-water regime comprising vigorous bottom currents, obvious temporal variability, and strong density contrasts, which all together provide optimal conditions for the growth of cold-water corals. This setting - potentially supported by the diel vertical migration of zooplankton in the Campeche area - controls the delivering of food particles to the corals. The Campeche cold-water coral province is, thus, an excellent example highlighting the importance of the oceanographic setting in securing the food supply for the development of large and vivid cold-water coral ecosystems. © Author(s) 2014. CC Attribution 3.0 License. (literal)
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