Hard- and soft-bottom thanatofacies from the Santa Maria di Leuca deep-water coral province, Mediterranean

Rosso, Antonietta; Vertino, Agostina; Geronimo, I. Di; Sanfilippo, Rossana; Sciuto, Francesco; Geronimo, Raffaella Di; Violanti, Donata; Corselli, Cesare; Taviani, Marco; Mastrototaro, Francesco; Tursi, Angelo

doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.08.024

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“…A single large specimen of T. sagittatus was caught at station 4 (608 m in depth) using a longline (4 LL in Table 1). The presence of D. vitreus on hard substrates of Bari Canyon at station 1B1 confirms the association of this species with CWC (Tursi et al, 2004;Mastrototaro et al, 2010;Rosso et al, 2010a;Taviani et al, 2011). Living benthic molluscs were not found on soft substrates of the Bari Canyon where, on the contrary, a large number of shells of dead molluscs were identified to 55 species belonging to the typical epibathyal mollusc communities currently present in the Mediterranean Sea (Panetta et al, 2013).…”

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Macro- and megafauna recorded in the submarine Bari Canyon (southern Adriatic, Mediterranean Sea) using different tools

et al. 2015

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Macro- and megafauna were recorded in the submarine Bari Canyon (southern Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea) during an oceanographic cruise carried out in May-June 2012 and an experimental fishing survey conducted in November 2013. During the former, a total of 20 benthic samples were taken using a Van Veen grab at depths between 268 and 770 m and 4 deployments of a baited lander, for about 43 hours of video records, were carried out at depths between 443 and 788 m. During the latter, 8 longline fishing operations were conducted from 338 down to 612 m. Eighty-five living benthic and benthopelagic species were recorded: 29 Porifera, 1 Cnidaria, 2 Mollusca, 11 Annelida, 1 Arthropoda, 19 Bryozoa, 3 Echinodermata and 19 Chordata. A total of 51 species are new records for the Bari Canyon, 29 new records for the Adriatic Sea. Among the Porifera Cerbaris curvispiculifer is a new addition for the Italian Sponge Fauna. The first certain record of living specimens for the bryozoan Crisia tenella longinodata is reported. A total of 6 Mediterranean endemic species have been identified: 4 Porifera and 2 Annelida. The bathymetric range of some species has been extended. New information acquired for deep sea species confirms their importance in the structure of cold-water coral communities. This study has updated the knowledge on the biodiversity of the Adriatic Sea, as well as of the Bari Canyon in particular, one of the sites designated as “jewels of the Mediterranean” for which urgent conservation measures are needed.

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Macro- and megafauna recorded in the submarine Bari Canyon (southern Adriatic, Mediterranean Sea) using different tools

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“…The occurrence of a few specimens of D. coronata indeed, underlines the presence of cold-water corals following its interpretation as an indicator species (Margreth et al, 2009). However, its low contribution may point to a reef of limited extension, but in coral facies of the Santa Maria di Leuca coral reefs, Rosso et al (2010) also observe D. coronata only accessory with b1% of the total assemblage. It is obvious that the state of coral reefs in the Mediterranean is different from that observed in the Atlantic with less biodiversity (Taviani et al, 2005;Mastrototaro et al, 2010) and being at the limit of environmental stress, especially temperature.…”

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Growth and demise of cold-water coral ecosystems on mud volcanoes in the West Alboran Sea: The messages from the planktonic and benthic foraminifera

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The Dhaka and Maya mud volcanoes (MVs), located in the Mud Diapir Province in the Western Alboran Basin along the Moroccan Coasts, were cored during the TTR-17, Leg 1 cruise. Cores were taken on the top of the volcanoes at a water depth of 370 m on the Dhaka MV (core TTR17-MS411G) and at 410 m water depth on the Maya MV (core TTR17-MS419G), respectively. On both mud volcanoes the extruded mud breccia provides the nucleation point for the colonization and development of cold-water corals and associated ecosystems. Two phases of cold-water coral growth are observed: (1) between slightly older than 4175± 62 years BP and around 2230± 59 years BP at Dhaka, and (2) between slightly older than 15583 ± 185 years BP and around 7613 ± 38 years BP at Maya MV. On the top of the Maya MV only a small patch reef and/or isolated corals proliferated, whereas a more extended patch reef colonized the top of the Dhaka MV. At both sites the cold-water coral development was triggered by the availability of a suitable substrate for initial coral settling, provided either as a firm ground or as single clasts. Subsequently coral growth was supported by enhanced nutrient flux possibly related to upwelling and/or strong currents. During the intervals of coral growth planktonic foraminiferal assemblages were dominated by Neogloboquadrina incompta. The decline of coral ecosystems on the mud volcanoes is accompanied at surface by a shift from the N. incompta dominated assemblage to a Globorotalia inflata dominated assemblage, possibly reflecting more oligotrophic conditions. This shift is coeval to the passage from wet to arid conditions at the end of the African Humid Period at Maya MV. It is interpreted as an effect of an early human impact on a fragile environment, which was already stressed by desiccation at the time of the development of complex human society along the Mediterranean coasts, at Dhaka MV.

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“…The presence of gastropods, such as Emarginula adriatica, Clelandella miliaris, Putzeysia wiseri, and Alvania cimicoides, and bivalves, A. nodulosa, Bathyarca philippiana, Karnekampia sulcata, and Spondylus gussoni, is consistent with, although not exclusive to, CWC habitats s.l. (Guidastri et al, 1983;Tursi et al, 2004;Remia and Taviani, 2005;Toscano and Raspini, 2005;Rosso et al, 2010;Trincardi et al, 2010;Taviani et al, 2011b;Negri and Corselli, 2016).…”

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“…CWCs such as the frame-builder scleractinian corals Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata have been documented from various parts of the Mediterranean basin , with references therein). As for the Atlantic Ocean, L. pertusa and M. oculata may form three-dimensional structures in the Mediterranean, which provide a substrate for various sessile benthic invertebrates, thus increasing the environmental biodiversity of CWC habitats, including their thanatofacies (Carlier et al, 2009;Freiwald et al, 2009;Bongiorni et al, 2010;Rosso et al, 2010;Vertino et al, 2010;D'Onghia et al 2015;Bargain et al, 2017;Taviani et al, 2017). The subfossil coral frames have been documented to act as taphonomic traps, at times including representatives both of the CWC-associated fauna and skeletal remains from adjacent habitats (Remia and Taviani, 2005;Angeletti and Taviani, 2011;Taviani et al, 2011b).…”

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Benthic invertebrates associated with subfossil cold-water coral frames and hardgrounds in the Albanian deep waters (Adriatic Sea)

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Cardone²,

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et al. 2018

Turk J Zool

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The fauna collected associated with subfossil Lophelia pertusa and Dendrophyllia cornigera coral samples and hardgrounds from Albanian waters between 190-230 m is discussed. Eighty-three benthic species are recorded: 2 Foraminifera, 22 Porifera, 6 Cnidaria, 25 Mollusca, 14 Annelida, 1 Arthropoda, 12 Bryozoa, and 1 Echinodermata. Seventy-four species are new records for the poorly investigated Albanian deep waters.

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Hard- and soft-bottom thanatofacies from the Santa Maria di Leuca deep-water coral province, Mediterranean

Cited by 71 publications

References 28 publications

Macro- and megafauna recorded in the submarine Bari Canyon (southern Adriatic, Mediterranean Sea) using different tools

Macro- and megafauna recorded in the submarine Bari Canyon (southern Adriatic, Mediterranean Sea) using different tools

Growth and demise of cold-water coral ecosystems on mud volcanoes in the West Alboran Sea: The messages from the planktonic and benthic foraminifera

Benthic invertebrates associated with subfossil cold-water coral frames and hardgrounds in the Albanian deep waters (Adriatic Sea)

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