The Irish–Scottish margin is geologically and oceanographically heterogeneous. Source
waters of subpolar and subtropical origin interact with banks, seamounts, submarine canyon …

Megafauna, such as cold-water corals, can promote diversity through various processes,
such as predation, bioturbation, competition, and facilitation as habitat engineers. Further …

The sodium content of biogenic carbonates shows potential as a palaeoceanographic proxy
for salinity and/or calcium concentration but the incorporation of Na+ into inorganic and …

The South Sandwich Islands (SSI) are a chain of volcanic islands located to the east of the
Scotia Sea, approximately 700 km south-east of South Georgia. To date, knowledge of the …

Predicting and measuring changes resulting from marine protected areas (MPAs) has posed
a challenge for practitioners, partly because ecosystems are complex and can change in …

Enhanced survey efforts in the Arctic are currently needed to broaden our understanding of
marine species distributions and establish the baseline data and methodologies necessary …

The Irish–Scottish margin is geologically and oceanographically heterogeneous. Source
waters of subpolar and subtropical origin interact with banks, seamounts, submarine canyon …

Sea pens are considered to be of conservation relevance according to multiple international
legislations and agreements. Consequently, any information about their ecology and …

While reproduction in deep-sea corals remains incompletely understood, there is a
particularly crucial shortage of information related to corals living in deep waters of the Arctic …

ABSTRACT Sea pens (Octocorallia: Pennatulacea) constitute one of the most important
structural species in soft bottom benthic communities. Most pennatulacean species are deep …