Decline in cold-water coral growth promotes molluscan diversity: A paleontological perspective from a cold-water coral mound in the western Mediterranean Sea

Decline in cold-water coral growth promotes molluscan diversity: A paleontological perspective from a cold-water coral mound in the western Mediterranean Sea

Framework-forming scleractinian cold-water corals (CWCs) act as ecosystem engineers, building and supporting biodiversity hotspots in the deep sea worldwide. While spatial patterns and drivers of species distributions have been evaluated on modern CWC reefs, little is known about how reef diversity...

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Main Authors: Chelsea A. Korpanty, Leon Hoffman, Rodrigo da Costa Portilho-Ramos, Jürgen Titschack, Claudia Wienberg, Dierk Hebbeln
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
cold-water coral
Mollusca
biodiversity
Alboran Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Quaternary
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.895946/full

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