Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future: Understanding the Deep-Sea Realms of Coral

Orejas, Covadonga; Jiménez, Carlos

What do we know about Mediterranean Cold (Deep)-Water coral ecosystems? In this book, specialists offer answers and insights with a series of chapters and short papers about the paleoecology, biology, physiology and ecology of the corals and other organisms that comprise these ecosystems. Structured on a temporal axis—Past, Present and Future—the reviews and selected study cases cover the cold and deep coral habitats known to date in the Mediterranean Basin. This book illustrates and explains the deep Mediterranean coral habitats that might have originated similar thriving ecosystems in today’s Atlantic Ocean.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2019-07-19

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319916071

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-91608-8

Dimensions: 279.0cm x210.0cm

Pages: 582.0