[HTML][HTML] Sediment oxygen consumption: Role in the global marine carbon cycle

BB Jørgensen, F Wenzhöfer, M Egger, RN Glud - Earth-science reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The seabed plays a key role in the marine carbon cycle as a) the terminal location of aerobic
oxidation of organic matter, b) the greatest anaerobic bioreactor, and c) the greatest …

Aquatic eddy covariance: the method and its contributions to defining oxygen and carbon fluxes in marine environments

P Berg, M Huettel, RN Glud… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Aquatic eddy covariance (AEC) is increasingly being used to study benthic oxygen (O2) flux
dynamics, organic carbon cycling, and ecosystem health in marine and freshwater …

A global ocean oxygen database and atlas for assessing and predicting deoxygenation and ocean health in the open and coastal ocean

M Grégoire, V Garçon, H Garcia, D Breitburg… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In this paper, we outline the need for a coordinated international effort toward the building of
an open-access Global Ocean Oxygen Database and ATlas (GO2DAT) complying with the …

Cold-water coral reefs and adjacent sponge grounds: hotspots of benthic respiration and organic carbon cycling in the deep sea

C Cathalot, D Van Oevelen, TJS Cox, T Kutti… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Cold-water coral reefs and adjacent sponge grounds are distributed widely in the deep
ocean, where only a small fraction of the surface productivity reaches the seafloor as …

A deep-sea sponge loop? Sponges transfer dissolved and particulate organic carbon and nitrogen to associated fauna

MC Bart, M Hudspith, HT Rapp… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cold-water coral reefs and sponge grounds are deep-sea biological hotspots, equivalent to
shallow-water tropical coral reefs. In tropical ecosystems, biodiversity and productivity are …

Giant sponge grounds of Central Arctic seamounts are associated with extinct seep life

TM Morganti, BM Slaby, A de Kluijver, K Busch… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Central Arctic Ocean is one of the most oligotrophic oceans on Earth because
of its sea-ice cover and short productive season. Nonetheless, across the peaks of extinct …

[PDF][PDF] Global biodiversity in cold-water coral reef ecosystems

LA Henry, JM Roberts - Marine animal forests: the ecology of …, 2017 - researchgate.net
Over half of all scleractinian coral species inhabit ocean depths greater than 50 m, some of
which are capable of constructing reefs tens of kilometers long and hundreds of meters high …

Ecosystem engineering creates a direct nutritional link between 600-m deep cold-water coral mounds and surface productivity

K Soetaert, C Mohn, A Rengstorf, A Grehan… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Cold-water corals (CWCs) form large mounds on the seafloor that are hotspots of
biodiversity in the deep sea, but it remains enigmatic how CWCs can thrive in this food …

Cable bacteria and the bioelectrochemical snorkel: the natural and engineered facets playing a role in hydrocarbons degradation in marine sediments

B Matturro, C Cruz Viggi, F Aulenta… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The composition and metabolic traits of the microbial communities acting in an innovative
bioelectrochemical system were here investigated. The system, known as Oil Spill Snorkel …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial distributions, environmental drivers and co-existence patterns of key cold-water corals in the deep sea of the Azores (NE Atlantic)

GH Taranto, JM González-Irusta… - Deep Sea Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …