Northeastern Atlantic cold-water coral reefs and climate
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| Date | 2011-08 | ||||||||
| Language | English | ||||||||
| Author(s) | Frank Norbert1, Freiwald Andre2, 3, Lopez Correa Matthias3, Wienberg Claudia4, Eisele Markus4, Hebbeln Dierk4, Van Rooij David5, Henriet Jean-Pierre5, Colin Christophe6, Van Weering Tjeerd7, de Haas Henk7, Buhl-Mortensen Pal8, Roberts J. Murray9, de Mol Ben10, Douville Eric1, Blamart Dominique1, Hatte Christine1 | ||||||||
| Affiliation(s) | 1 : IPSL, LSCE, UMR8212, Unite Mixte Rech, F-91198 Gif Sur Yvette, France. 2 : Senckenberg Meer, Abt Meeresforsch, D-26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany. 3 : Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, GZN, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany. 4 : Univ Bremen, MARUM, D-28359 Bremen, Germany. 5 : Univ Ghent, RCMG, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. 6 : Univ Paris 11, UMR 8148, Lab IDES, Unite Mixte Rech, F-91405 Orsay, France. 7 : Royal Netherlands Inst Sea Res NIOZ, NL-1797 SZ Thorntje, Texel, Netherlands. 8 : Inst Marine Res, N-5024 Bergen, Norway. 9 : Heriot Watt Univ, Sch Life Sci, Ctr Marine Biodivers & Biotechnol, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Midlothian, Scotland. 10 : Grp Recerca Geociencies Marines, Barcelona 08028, Spain. |
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| Source | Geology (0091-7613) (Geological Soc Amer, Inc), 2011-08 , Vol. 39 , N. 8 , P. 743-746 | ||||||||
| DOI | 10.1130/G31825.1 | ||||||||
| WOS© Times Cited | 74 | ||||||||
| Abstract | U-series age patterns obtained on reef framework-forming cold-water corals collected over a nearly 6000-km-long continental margin sector, extending from off Mauritania (17 degrees N; northwest Africa) to the southwestern Barents Sea (70 degrees N; northeastern Europe), reveal strong climate influences on the geographical distribution and sustained development of these ecosystems. Over the past three glacial-interglacial cycles, framework-forming cold-water corals (Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata) seem to have predominantly populated reefs, canyons, and patches in the temperate East Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. Above 50 degrees N corals colonize reefs in the northern East Atlantic primarily during warm climate periods with the biogeographic limit advancing from similar to 50 degrees N to similar to 70 degrees N. We propose that north-south oscillations of the biogeographic limit of reef developments are paced by ice ages and may occur synchronously with north-south displacement of cold nutrient-rich intermediate waters and surface productivity related to changes of the polar front. | ||||||||
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