The summer assemblage of large pelagic Crustacea in the Gully submarine canyon: Major patterns
"We describe the trawl-vulnerable crustacean micronekton and macrozooplankton of the Gully, a large, shelf-incising submarine canyon off Nova Scotia, Canada, and a Marine Protected Area. Over 68 species of pelagic crustacea were collected with an Internat...
High-resolution bathymetry and acoustic geophysical data from Santa Maria di Leuca Cold Water Coral province (Northern Ionian Sea - Apulian continental slope)
" total of 800 km2 of multibeam echo-sounder coverage, roughly 800 km of chirp-sonar data and 18 km of side-scan sonar profiles (100/500 kHz) were acquired a few km offshore Santa Maria di Leuca (south-eastern Italy), from 200 m to 1300 m water depth. The...
Benthic habitat characterization and distribution from two representative sites of the deep-water SML Coral Province (Mediterranean)
"Two sites (MS04 and MS06) from the Santa Maria di Leuca (SML) Coral Province were analyzed by a video and acoustic survey during the National Italian Project Apulian Plateau Bank Ecosystem Study (APLABES). Site MS04 (Atlantis Mound) is characterized by a...
Spatiotemporal bioerosion patterns in deep-water scleractinians from off Santa Maria di Leuca (Apulia, Ionian Sea)
"This study focuses on the carbonate biodegradation processes of deep-water scleractinians from off Apulia at Santa Maria di Leuca (SML) in the Ionian Sea, including living colonies of Lophelia pertusa, Madrepora oculata and Desmophyllum dianthus. The cor...
Benthic foraminifera from Capbreton Canyon revisited; faunal evolution after repetitive sediment disturbance
"At a 650 m deep site in the axis of Capbreton Canyon an 18-cm-thick turbidite was deposited in December 1999. During subsequent campaigns, an almost monospecific fauna of the benthic foraminifer Technitella melo, considered as a pioneer species, was foun...
First observations of the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa in mid-Atlantic canyons of the USA
"The structure-forming, cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa is widely distributed throughout the North Atlantic Ocean and also occurs in the South Atlantic, North Pacific and Indian oceans. This species has formed extensive reefs, chiefly in deep water, alo...
Hydrographic characteristics of water masses and circulation in the Northern Ionian Sea
"he hydrography of intermediate and deep-water masses in the Northern Ionian Sea (Apulian Plateau) was studied through four quasi-synoptic multidisciplinary surveys carried out in 2004 - 2006 as an ancillary oceanographic activity in the frame of the APLA...
The oceanography, biogeochemistry and ecology of two NE Atlantic seamounts: The OASIS project
"Seamounts, defined here as undersea topographic features of limited lateral extent, which rise more than 1 km from the seafloor, are common features in all ocean basins. Only a few of them have been mapped so far, but data from satellite gravimetry sugge...
Introduction: Cold-Water Coral communities in the Mediterranean Sea
"The scleractians species Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata are considered two of the main components of the Cold-Water Coral communities (CWCs), well distributed in all deep oceans (see Freiwald and Roberts 2005 for a complete discussion). The scien...
The APLABES Programme: Physical, Chemical and Biological Characterization of Deep-Water Coral Ecosystems from the Ionian Sea (Mediterranean)
Volume 57, Issues 5-6 of Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography characterize the physical, chemical, and biological components of deep-water coral ecosystems in the Ionian Sea (Mediterranean).
The summer assemblage of large pelagic Crustacea in the Gully submarine canyon: Major patterns