Megafauna of vulnerable marine ecosystems in French mediterranean submarine canyons: Spatial distribution and anthropogenic impacts

MC Fabri, L Pedel, L Beuck, F Galgani… - Deep Sea Research …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VME) in the deep Mediterranean Sea have been
identified by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean as consisting of …

Structure-forming corals and sponges and their use as fish habitat in Bering Sea submarine canyons

RJ Miller, J Hocevar, RP Stone, DV Fedorov - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Continental margins are dynamic, heterogeneous settings that can include canyons,
seamounts, and banks. Two of the largest canyons in the world, Zhemchug and Pribilof, cut …

Changes in northeast Pacific marine ecosystems over the last 4500 years: evidence from stable isotope analysis of bone collagen from archeological middens

N Misarti, B Finney, H Maschner… - The Holocene, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Changes in food web dynamics and ocean productivity over the past 4500 years are
investigated using stable isotope analysis of nitrogen and carbon in collagen from animal …

Proteinaceous corals as proxy archives of paleo-environmental change

B Williams - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
High-resolution marine data are critical to evaluating anthropogenic impacts on our
environment. Considering the spatial and temporal limitations of direct instrumental …

Calibrating amino acid δ13C and δ15N offsets between polyp and protein skeleton to develop proteinaceous deep-sea corals as paleoceanographic archives

KW McMahon, B Williams, TP Guilderson… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Compound-specific stable isotopes of amino acids (CSI-AA) from proteinaceous deep-sea
coral skeletons have the potential to improve paleoreconstructions of plankton community …

Tracking the record of sewage discharge off Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, since 1950, using stable isotope records from antipatharians

MJ Risk, OA Sherwood, R Nairn… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2009 - int-res.com
In 2007, a study was undertaken of the long-term records of the ratios of stable isotopes of
carbon (δ 13 C) and nitrogen (δ 15 N) in the skeletons of antipatharians (black corals) …

Reproducibility of trace element profiles in a specimen of the deep-water bamboo coral Keratoisis sp.

DJ Sinclair, B Williams, G Allard, B Ghaleb… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2011 - Elsevier
Bamboo corals (Order Gorgonacea, Family Isididae) are attractive prospects for deep-sea
paleoceanographic reconstruction, capturing trace elements in their calcitic skeletons that …

Stable isotope signatures in historic harbor seal bone link food web‐assimilated carbon and nitrogen resources to a century of environmental change

ML Feddern, GW Holtgrieve, EJ Ward - Global Change Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic climate change will impact nutrient cycles, primary production, and
ecosystem structure in the world's oceans, although considerable uncertainty exists …

Twentieth century δ13C variability in surface water dissolved inorganic carbon recorded by coralline algae in the northern North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea

B Williams, J Halfar, RS Steneck, UG Wortmann… - …, 2011 - bg.copernicus.org
The oxygen isotopic composition and Mg/Ca ratios in the skeletons of long-lived coralline
algae record ambient seawater temperature over time. Similarly, the carbon isotopic …

Defining isoscapes in the Northeast Pacific as an index of ocean productivity

B Espinasse, BPV Hunt, SD Batten… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We modelled isoscapes in the Northeast (NE) Pacific using satellite‐based data, with
the main objective of testing whether isoscapes defined by a few key parameters can be …