Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future: Understanding the Deep-Sea Realms of Coral

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What do we know about Mediterranean Cold (Deep)-Water coral ecosystems? In this book, specialists offer answers and insights with a series of chapters and short papers about the paleoecology, biology, physiology and ecology of the corals and other organisms that comprise these ecosystems. Structured on a temporal axis—Past, Present and Future—the reviews and selected study cases cover the cold and deep coral habitats known to date in the Mediterranean Basin. This book illustrates and explains the deep Mediterranean coral habitats that might have originated similar thriving ecosystems in today’s Atlantic Ocean. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 1 An Introduction to the Research on Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals (Covadonga Orejas, Carlos Jiménez)....Pages 3-12 Front Matter ....Pages 13-13 2 Paleoecology of Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals (Marco Taviani, Agostina Vertino, Lorenzo Angeletti, Paolo Montagna, Alessandro Remia)....Pages 15-30 3 Cold-Water Corals in the Mediterranean: A History of Discovery (Julian Evans, Leyla Knittweis, Joseph A. Borg, Patrick J. Schembri)....Pages 31-33 4 A Turbulent Story: Mediterranean Contourites and Cold-Water Corals (Michele Rebesco, Marco Taviani)....Pages 35-46 5 Messinian Salinity Crisis: What Happened to Cold-Water Corals? (André Freiwald)....Pages 47-50 6 Did Quaternary Climate Fluctuations Affect Mediterranean Deep-Sea Coral Communities? (Agostina Vertino, Cesare Corselli)....Pages 51-55 7 A Deglacial Cold-Water Coral Boom in the Alborán Sea: From Coral Mounds and Species Dominance (Claudia Wienberg)....Pages 57-60 8 Highly Variable Submarine Landscapes in the Alborán Sea Created by Cold-Water Corals (Dierk Hebbeln)....Pages 61-65 9 Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals (Agostina Vertino, Marco Taviani, Cesare Corselli)....Pages 67-83 10 Bathyal Corals Within the Aegean Sea and the Adjacent Hellenic Trench (Jürgen Titschack)....Pages 85-94 11 Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals as Paleoclimate Archives (Paolo Montagna, Marco Taviani)....Pages 95-108 12 Tomography of Cold-Water Corals-Bearing Cores (Lorenzo Angeletti, Matteo Bettuzzi, Maria Pia Morigi)....Pages 109-113 13 Changing Views About Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals (Marco Taviani)....Pages 115-118 Front Matter ....Pages 119-119 14 Taxonomy, Genetics and Biodiversity of Mediterranean Deep-Sea Corals and Cold-Water Corals (Alvaro Altuna, Angelo Poliseno)....Pages 121-156 15 Habitat Mapping of Cold-Water Corals in the Mediterranean Sea (Claudio Lo Iacono, Alessandra Savini, Veerle A. I. Huvenne, Eulàlia Gràcia)....Pages 157-171 16 Cold-Water Coral Habitat Mapping in the Mediterranean Sea: Methodologies and Perspectives (Lorenzo Angeletti, Annaëlle Bargain, Elisabetta Campiani, Federica Foglini, Valentina Grande, Elisa Leidi et al.)....Pages 173-189 17 Working with Visual Methods, Comparison Among the French Deep-Sea Canyons (Maïa Fourt, Adrien Goujard, Pierre Chevaldonné)....Pages 191-194 18 Review of the Circulation and Characteristics of Intermediate Water Masses of the Mediterranean: Implications for Cold-Water Coral Habitats (Daniel R. Hayes, Katrin Schroeder, Pierre-Marie Poulain, Pierre Testor, Laurent Mortier, Anthony Bosse et al.)....Pages 195-211 19 Occurrence and Biogeography of Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals (Giovanni Chimienti, Marzia Bo, Marco Taviani, Francesco Mastrototaro)....Pages 213-243 20 Gorgonian and Black Coral Assemblages in Deep Coastal Bottoms and Continental Shelves of the Mediterranean Sea (Andrea Gori, Jordi Grinyó, Carlos Dominguez-Carrió, Stefano Ambroso, Pablo J. López-González, Josep-Maria Gili et al.)....Pages 245-248 21 Mediterranean Black Coral Communities (Marzia Bo, Giorgio Bavestrello)....Pages 249-251 22 Recent Discoveries of Extensive Cold-Water Coral Assemblages in Maltese Waters (Leyla Knittweis, Julian Evans, Ricardo Aguilar, Helena Álvarez, Joseph A. Borg, Silvia García et al.)....Pages 253-255 23 Corals of Aphrodite: Dendrophyllia ramea Populations of Cyprus (Covadonga Orejas, Carlos Jiménez, Andrea Gori, Jesús Rivera, Claudio Lo Iacono, Didier Aurelle et al.)....Pages 257-260 24 Cold-Water Corals in Fluid Venting Submarine Structures (Desirée Palomino, José Luis Rueda, Juan Tomás Vázquez, Javier Urra, Olga Sánchez-Guillamón, Emilio González-García et al.)....Pages 261-263 25 Cold-Water Corals and Mud Volcanoes: Life on a Dynamic Substrate (Andres Rüggeberg, Anneleen Foubert)....Pages 265-269 26 Occurrence of Living Cold-Water Corals at Large Depths Within Submarine Canyons of the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea (Anna Aymà, Jacopo Aguzzi, Miquel Canals, Joan Batista Company, Galderic Lastras, Ariadna Mecho et al.)....Pages 271-284 27 Submarine Canyons in the Mediterranean: A Shelter for Cold-Water Corals (Pere Puig, Josep-Maria Gili)....Pages 285-289 28 A Cold-Water Coral Habitat in La Fonera Submarine Canyon, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea (Galderic Lastras, Anna Sanchez-Vidal, Miquel Canals)....Pages 291-293 29 Cold-Water Coral Associated Fauna in the Mediterranean Sea and Adjacent Areas (José L. Rueda, Javier Urra, Ricardo Aguilar, Lorenzo Angeletti, Marzia Bo, Cristina García-Ruiz et al.)....Pages 295-333 30 Cold-Water Corals as Shelter, Feeding and Life-History Critical Habitats for Fish Species: Ecological Interactions and Fishing Impact (Gianfranco D’Onghia)....Pages 335-356 31 Past, Present and Future Connectivity of Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Patterns, Drivers and Fate in a Technically and Environmentally Changing World (Joana Boavida, Ronan Becheler, Anna Maria Addamo, Florent Sylvestre, Sophie Arnaud-Haond)....Pages 357-372 32 Desmophyllum dianthus Genetics and More (Anna Maria Addamo)....Pages 373-375 33 Diversity of Bacteria Associated with the Cold Water Corals Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata (Markus G. Weinbauer, Davide Oregioni, Anne Großkurth, Marie-Emanuelle Kerros, Tilmann Harder, Michael DuBow et al.)....Pages 377-386 34 Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata: An Archaea Riddle? (Markus G. Weinbauer, Davide Oregioni, Cornelia Maier)....Pages 387-389 Biology and Ecophysiology of Mediterranean Cold–Water Corals (Stéphanie Reynaud, Christine Ferrier-Pagès)....Pages 391-404 36 Growth Patterns of Mediterranean Calcifying Cold-Water Corals (Franck Lartaud, Vincent Mouchi, Leïla Chapron, Anne-Leïla Meistertzheim, Nadine Le Bris)....Pages 405-422 37 Demography and Conservation of Deep Corals: The Study of Population Structure and Dynamics (Lorenzo Bramanti, Giovanni Santangelo, Maria Carla Benedetti, Mimmo Iannelli, Katell Guizien)....Pages 423-434 38 Cold-Water Coral in Aquaria: Advances and Challenges. A Focus on the Mediterranean (Covadonga Orejas, Marco Taviani, Stefano Ambroso, Vasilis Andreou, Meri Bilan, Marzia Bo et al.)....Pages 435-471 39 Approaching Cold-Water Corals to the Society: Novel Ways to Transfer Knowledge (Sergio Rossi, Covadonga Orejas)....Pages 473-480 Front Matter ....Pages 481-481 40 Perspectives of Biophysical Modelling with Implications on Biological Connectivity of Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals (Matthew W. Johnston, Ann I. Larsson)....Pages 483-498 41 The Interface Between Tectonic Evolution and Cold-Water Coral Dynamics in the Mediterranean (Rinus Wortel, Paul Meijer)....Pages 499-505 42 The Mediterranean Is Getting Saltier: From the Past to the Future (Nikolaos Skliris)....Pages 507-512 43 The Spread of Non-indigenous Species in the Mediterranean – A Threat to Cold-Water Corals? (Bella S. Galil)....Pages 513-516 44 Fate of Mediterranean Scleractinian Cold-Water Corals as a Result of Global Climate Change. A Synthesis (Cornelia Maier, Markus G. Weinbauer, Jean-Pierre Gattuso)....Pages 517-529 45 A Case Study: Variability in the Calcification Response of Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals to Ocean Acidification (Juancho Movilla)....Pages 531-533 46 Conservation of Cold-Water Corals in the Mediterranean: Current Status and Future Prospects for Improvement (Maria del Mar Otero, Pilar Marin)....Pages 535-545 Back Matter ....Pages 547-582