Publication Date:
2006-04-29
Description:
Coral reefs are generally associated with shallow tropical seas; however, recent deep-ocean exploration using advanced acoustics and submersibles has revealed unexpectedly widespread and diverse coral ecosystems in deep waters on continental shelves, slopes, seamounts, and ridge systems around the world. Advances reviewed here include the use of corals as paleoclimatic archives and their biogeological functioning, biodiversity, and biogeography. Threats to these fragile, long-lived, and rich ecosystems are mounting: The impacts of deep-water trawling are already widespread, and effects of ocean acidification are potentially devastating.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Roberts, J Murray -- Wheeler, Andrew J -- Freiwald, Andre -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Apr 28;312(5773):543-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Scottish Association for Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban, Argyll, PA37 1QA, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16645087" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Anthozoa/growth & development
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*Biodiversity
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Climate
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*Cold Temperature
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Conservation of Natural Resources
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*Ecosystem
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Environment
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Fishes
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Genetics, Population
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Geologic Sediments
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Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
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*Seawater
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Time
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
