ArticlePLoS biology2022
Major environmental drivers determining life and death of cold-water corals through time.
Article in PLoS biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Deep-water corals indicate the Red Sea survived the last glacial lowstand.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Mapping the habitat refugia of Isidella elongata under climate change and trawling impacts to preserve Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the Mediterranean.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Expanding our view of the cold-water coral niche and accounting of the ecosystem services of the reef habitat.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Trophic ecology of Angolan cold-water coral reefs (SE Atlantic) based on stable isotope analyses.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Predicting the effects of climate change on deep-water coral distribution around New Zealand-Will there be suitable refuges for protection at the end of the 21st century?Global change biology · 2022Article
- Addressing biodiversity loss by building a shared future.PLoS biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Cold-water corals (CWCs) are the engineers of complex ecosystems forming unique biodiversity hotspots in the deep sea. They are expected to suffer dramatically from future environmental changes in the oceans such as ocean warming, food depletion, deoxygenation, and acidification. However, over the last decades of intense deep-sea research, no extinction event of a CWC ecosystem is documented, leaving quite some uncertainty on their sensitivity to these environmental parameters. Paleoceanographic reconstructions offer the opportunity to align the on- and offsets of CWC proliferation to environmental parameters. Here, we present the synthesis of 6 case studies from the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, revealing that food supply controlled by export production and turbulent hydrodynamics at the seabed exerted the strongest impact on coral vitality during the past 20,000 years, whereas locally low oxygen concentrations in the bottom water can act as an additional relevant stressor. The fate of CWCs in a changing ocean will largely depend on how these oceanographic processes will be modulated. Future ocean deoxygenation may be compensated regionally where the food delivery and food quality are optimal.
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