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 …

Cold-water corals in the Cap de Creus canyon, northwestern Mediterranean: spatial distribution, density and anthropogenic impact

C Orejas, A Gori, CL Iacono, P Puig, JM Gili… - Marine Ecology …, 2009 - int-res.com
The occurrence and density of 3 cold-water coral (CWC) species (Madrepora oculata,
Lophelia pertusa and Dendrophyllia cornigera) were investigated in the Cap de Creus …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial patterns of arctic sponge ground fauna and demersal fish are detectable in autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imagery

HK Meyer, EM Roberts, HT Rapp, AJ Davies - Deep Sea Research Part I …, 2019 - Elsevier
Deep-sea sponge grounds are important habitats that provide several ecosystem services,
yet relatively little is known about their distribution and ecology. While most surveys have …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond the tip of the seamount: Distinct megabenthic communities found beyond the charismatic summit sponge ground on an arctic seamount (Schulz Bank …

HK Meyer, AJ Davies, EM Roberts, JR Xavier… - Deep Sea Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
Our understanding of the benthic communities on arctic seamounts and descriptions of such
communities in habitat classification systems are limited. In recent years, Schulz Bank (73° …

Identifying epibenthic habitats on the Seco de los Olivos Seamount: Species assemblages and environmental characteristics

A De la Torriente, A Serrano… - Deep Sea Research …, 2018 - Elsevier
High habitat diversity was observed on the Seco de los Olivos Seamount (SW
Mediterranean Sea), a Site of Community Importance belonging to the Spanish marine …

Deepwater corals biodiversity along roche du large ecosystems with different habitat complexity along the south Sardinia continental margin (CW Mediterranean Sea)

A Cau, MC Follesa, D Moccia, A Alvito, M Bo… - Marine biology, 2015 - Springer
Rocky pinnacles arising from soft bottoms of the circa-littoral zone may host oases of
deepwater coral biodiversity: Engineer species that enhance ecosystem's three-dimensional …

Benthic assemblages of the Anton Dohrn Seamount (NE Atlantic): defining deep-sea biotopes to support habitat mapping and management efforts with a focus on …

JS Davies, HA Stewart, BE Narayanaswamy, C Jacobs… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
In 2009 the NW and SE flanks of Anton Dohrn Seamount were surveyed using multibeam
echosounder and video ground-truthing to characterise megabenthic biological …

First recording of a bathypelagic deep scattering layer in the Bay of Biscay

M Peña, I Munuera–Fernández, E Nogueira… - Progress in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Acoustic meso-and bathypelagic studies are scarce in the Bay of Biscay but increasing over
the last years. This study provides a description of seasonal and bathymetric variation in the …

Habitat characterization of deep-water coral reefs in La Gaviera canyon (Avilés Canyon System, Cantabrian Sea)

F Sánchez, C González-Pola, M Druet… - Deep Sea Research …, 2014 - Elsevier
Surveys conducted at the complex Avilés Canyon System (southern Bay of Biscay) in order
to identify vulnerable habitats and biological communities revealed the presence of …

High Resolution Spatial Distribution for the Hexactinellid Sponges Asconema setubalense and Pheronema carpenteri in the Central Cantabrian Sea

A Rodríguez-Basalo, E Prado, F Sánchez… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In the present work we focus on the distribution of two species of sponges. One of these is
Asconema setubalense, a sponge found in rocky substrate that was sampled with a …