Circulation patterns in the North Atlantic Ocean have changed and re-organized multiple
times over millions of years, influencing the biodiversity, distribution, and connectivity …

The deep sea plays a critical role in global climate regulation through uptake and storage of
heat and carbon dioxide. However, this regulating service causes warming, acidification and …

Understanding what determines range expansion or extinction is crucial to predict the
success of biological invaders. We tackled this long-standing question from an unparalleled …

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

Deep-water coral reefs are found worldwide and harbor biodiversity levels that are
comparable to their shallow-water counterparts. However, the genetic diversity and …

Cold-water corals are threatened by global warming, especially in the Mediterranean Sea
where they live close to their upper known thermal limit (ie 13° C), yet their response to …

Although cold-water coral (CWC) biology, physiology, and connectivity, have been
extensively studied, few studies have so far focused on their reproductive biology. The …

Habitat-forming cold-water corals (CWCs) represent a key component of deep-sea benthic
communities and a priority target for conservation. Although research efforts have been …

The presence of different water masses in depth may influence the species distribution and
community structure in deep-sea benthic ecosystems. In the North Atlantic, the …

In highly fragmented and relatively stable cold-seep ecosystems, species are expected to
exhibit high migration rates and long-distance dispersal of long-lived pelagic larvae to …