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2 Paleoecology of Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals
Atlantic-type scleractinian cold-water corals occur in the Quaternary of the Mediterranean basin. Most fossil evidence on-land is Early Pleistocene in age, and occurs in peninsular Italy, Sicily and on some Gr...
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Open AccessHigh resolution multibeam and hydrodynamic datasets of tidal channels and inlets of the Venice Lagoon
Tidal channels are crucial for the functioning of wetlands, though their morphological properties, which are relevant for seafloor habitats and flow, have been understudied so far. Here, we release a dataset c...
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First geo-marine survey of living cold-water Lophelia reefs in the Ionian Sea (Mediterranean basin)
Prosperous deep coral mounds including living colonies of Lophelia pertusa together with Madrepora oculata and Desmophyllum dianthus (= D. cristagalli) have been discovered in 2000, by fishery operations on the e...
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Shallow-buried Pleistocene Madrepora-dominated coral mounds on a muddy continental slope, Tuscan Archipelago, NE Tyrrhenian Sea
Subfossil azoxanthellate deep-sea coral mounds occur at 355–410 m on the continental slope of the NE Tyrrhenian Sea between Gorgona and Capraia islands, Tuscan Archipelago. These low-relief patch reefs are at ...
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High-resolution trace and minor element compositions in deep-water scleractinian corals (Desmophyllum dianthus) from the Mediterranean Sea and the Great Australian Bight
Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals have been shown to preserve important archives of seasonal variations of climate variables, such as sea surface temperature, salinity, and productivity. By analogy, the reco...
