Title Seafloor geomorphology as benthic habitat : GeoHAB atlas of seafloor geomorphic features and benthic habitats / edited by Peter T. Harris, Elaine K. Baker

Edition 1st ed Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2012 [i.e. 2011], ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xlv, 900 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Elsevier insights Elsevier insights. Contents Why map benthic habitats? / Peter T. Harris and Elaine K. Baker -- Habitat mapping and marine management / Elaine K. Baker and Peter T. Harris -- Anthropogenic threats to benthic habitats / Peter T. Harris -- Biogeography, benthic ecology, and habitat classification schemes / Peter T. Harris -- Surrogacy / Peter T. Harris -- Seafloor geomorphology : coast, shelf, and abyss / Peter T. Harris -- Phanerogam meadows : a characteristic habitat of the Mediterranean shelf : examples from the Tyrrhenian Sea / Silvana D'Angelo and Andrea Fiorentino -- Predictive modeling of dominant macroalgae abundance on temperate island shelves (Azores, northeast Atlantic) / Fernando Tempera [and others] -- Methane-related carbonate cementation of marine sediments and related macroalgal coralligenous assemblages in the northern Adriatic Sea / Emiliano Gordini [and others] -- Coastal kelp forest habitat in the Baie des Chaleurs, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada / Antoine Collin, Bernard Long, and Philippe Archambault -- The Wadden Sea in the Netherlands : ecotopes in a World Heritage barrier island system / Norbert Dankers [and others] -- Sand wave field : the OBel Sands, Bristol Channel, UK / J.W. Ceri James [and others] -- Benthic habitat variations over tidal ridges, North Sea, the Netherlands / Thaiënne A.G.P. van Dijk [and others] -- Fine-scale geomorphological mapping of sandbank environments for the prediction of macrobenthic occurrences, Belgian part of the North Sea / Vera Van Lancker [and others] -- Large submarine sand waves and gravel lag substrates on Georges Bank off Atlantic Canada / Brian J. Todd and Page C. Valentine -- The Yongala's "halo of holes" : systematic bioturbation close to a shipwreck / Thomas C. Stieglitz -- Submarine De Geer moraines in the Kvarken Archipelago, the Baltic Sea / Aarno T. Kotilainen [and others] -- Habitats and benthos of an evolving fjord, Glacier Bay, Alaska / Guy R. Cochrane [and others] -- Geomorphic features and benthic habitats of a sub-Arctic fjord : Gilbert Bay, southern Labrador, Canada / Alison Copeland [and others] -- Seabed character and habitats of a rocky Antarctic coastline : Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica / Philip E. O'Brien [and others] -- Fringing reefs of the Seychelles Inner granitic islands, western Indian Ocean / Jenny S. Collier and Stuart R. Humber -- Coral reefs and reef islands of the Amirantes Archipelago, western Indian Ocean / Sarah Hamylton, Tom Spencer and Annelise B. Hagan -- Hyperspectral remote sensing of the geomorphic features and habitats of the AI Wajh Bank reef system, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea / Sarah Hamylton -- Mesophotic coral reefs of the Puerto Rico shelf / Roy A. Armstrong and Hanumant Singh -- Geomorphic features and infauna diversity of a subtropical mid-ocean carbonate shelf : Lord Howe Island, southwest Pacific Ocean / Brendan P. Brooke [and others] -- Geomorphology of reef fish spawning aggregations in Belize and the Cayman Islands (Caribbean) / William D. Heyman and Shinichi Kobara -- Submerged reefs and aeolian dunes as inherited habitats, Point Cloates, Carnarvon shelf, Western Australia / Scott L. Nichol [and others] -- Seafloor morphology and coral habitat variability in a volcanic environment : Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park, Hawaii, USA / Ann E. Gibbs and Susan A. Cochran -- Habitats and benthos at Hydrographers Passage, Great Barrier Reef, Australia / Robin J. Beaman [and others] -- Two shelf-edge marine protected areas in the eastern Gulf of Mexico / Rebecca J. Allee, Andrew W. David, and David F. Naar -- Nontropical carbonate shelf sedimentation : the Archipelago Pontino (central Italy) case history / Eleonora Martorelli [and others] -- Habitats of the Cap de Creus continental shelf and Cap de Creus canyon, northwestern Mediterranean / Claudio Lo Iacono [and others] -- Rock ridges in the central English Channel / Roger A. Coggan and Markus Diesing -- Characterization of shallow inshore coastal reefs on the Tasman Peninsula, southeastern Tasmania, Australia / Vanessa Lucieer [and others] -- Rocky reef and sedimentary habitats within the continental shelf of the southeastern Bay of Biscay / Ibon Galparsoro [and others] -- Rock reefs of British Columbia, Canada : inshore rockfish habitats / K. Lynne Yamanaka [and others] -- Seabed habitats of the southern Irish Sea / Karen A. Robinson [and others] -- Habitats and demersal fish communities in the vicinity of Albatross Bank, Gulf of Alaska / Jennifer R. Reynolds [and others] -- Seabed habitat of a glaciated shelf, German Bank, Atlantic Canada / Brian J. Todd, Vladimir E. Kostylev, and Stephen J. Smith Identifying potential habitats from multibeam echosounder imagery to estimate abundance of groundfish : a case study at Heceta Bank, OR, USA / Julia E.R. Getsiv-Clemons [and others] -- Open shelf valley system, northern palaeovalley, English Channel, UK / J.W. Ceri James [and others] -- Benthos supported by the tunnel-valleys of the southern North Sea / Bryony Pearce [and others] -- Benthic habitats and benthic communities in southeastern Baltic Sea, Russian sector / Elena Ezhova [and others] -- Inland tidal sea of the northeastern Pacific / J. Vaughn Barrie [and others] -- Cold-water coral distribution in an erosional environment : the Strait of Gibraltar gateway / Ben De Mol [and others] -- Habitat mapping of a cold-water coral mound on Pen Duick escarpment (Gulf of Cadiz) / Lies De Mol [and others] -- Habitats at the Rockall Bank slope failure features, northeast Atlantic Ocean / Janine Guinan [and others] -- Evaluating geomorphic features as surrogates for benthic biodiversity oil on Australia's western continental margin / Franziska Althaus [and others] -- Habitats of the Chella Bank, eastern Alboran Sea (western Mediterranean) / Claudio Lo Iacono [and others] -- Habitat heterogeneity in the Nazaré deep-sea canon offshore Portugal / Veerle A.I. Huvenne [and others] -- Banks, troughs, and canyons on the continental margin off Lofoten, Vesterålen, and Troms, Norway / Lene Buhl-Mortensen [and others] -- Distribution of hydrocorals along the George V slope, East Antarctica / Alexandra L. Post [and others] -- The Cook Strait canyon, New Zealand : geomorphology and seafloor biodiversity of a large bedrock canyon system in a tectonically active environment / Geoffroy Lamarche [and others] -- The Ascension-Monterey canyon system : habitats of demersal fishes and macroinvertebrates along the central California coast of the USA / Mary Yoklavich and H. Gary Greene -- A study of geomorphological features of the seabed and the relationship to deep-sea communities on the western slope of Hatton Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean) / Miriam Sayago-Gil [and others] -- Seafloor habitats and benthos of a continental ridge : Chatham rise, New Zealand / Scott D. Nodder [and others] -- Habitats and benthos of a deep-sea marginal plateau, Lord Howe rise, Australia / Peter T. Harris [and others] -- Seamounts, ridges, and reef habitats of American Samoa / Dawn J. Wright [and others] -- Mapping condor seamount seafloor environment and associated biological assemblages (Azores, NE Atlantic) / Fernando Tempera [and others] -- Cold-water coral colonization of Alboran sea knolls, western Mediterranean Sea / Ben De Mol [and others] -- Fluid venting through the seabed in the Gulf of Cadiz (SE Atlantic Ocean, western Iberian Peninsula) : geomorphic features, habitats, and associated fauna / José L. Rueda [and others] -- Habitats or the Su Su Knolls hydrothermal site, eastern Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea / Yannick C. Beaudoin and Samantha Smith -- Southern Kermadec arc-Havre trough geohabitats and biological communities / Richard J. Wysoczanski and Malcolm R. Clark -- GeoHab atlas of seafloor geomorphic features and benthic habitats : synthesis and lessons learned / Peter T. Harris and Elaine K. Baker Summary The conservation of marine benthic biodiversity is a recognised goal of a number of national and international programs such as the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity (CBD). In order to attain this goal, information is needed about the distribution of life in the ocean so that spatial conservation measures such as marine protected areas (MPAs) can be designed to maximise protection within boundaries of acceptable dimensions. Ideally, a map would be produced that showed the distribution of benthic biodiversity to enable the efficient design of MPAs. The dilemma is that such maps do not exist for most areas and it is not possible at present to predict the spatial distribution of all marine life using the sparse biological information currently available. Knowledge of the geomorphology and biogeography of the seafloor has improved markedly over the past 10 years. Using multibeam sonar, the benthic ecology of submarine features such as fjords, sand banks, coral reefs, seamounts, canyons, mud volcanoes and spreading ridges has been revealed in unprecedented detail. This book provides a synthesis of seabed geomorphology and benthic habitats based on the most recent, up-to-date information. Introductory chapters explain the drivers that underpin the need for benthic habitat maps, including threats to ocean health, the habitat mapping approach based on principles of biogeography and benthic ecology and seabed (geomorphic) classification schemes. Case studies from around the world are then presented. They represent a range of seabed features where detailed bathymetric maps have been combined with seabed video and sampling to yield an integrated picture of the benthic communities that are associated with different types of benthic habitat. The final chapter examines critical knowledge gaps and future directions for benthic habitat mapping research. Reviews and compares the different methodologies currently being used Includes global case studies Provides geological expertise into what has traditionally been a biological discipline Analysis marien milieu marine environment mariene biologie marine biology benthos aquatische gemeenschappen aquatic communities habitats biodiversiteit biodiversity Marine Ecology Mariene Ecologie Notes Outgrowth of the 2007 GeoHab meeting held in Noumea, New Caledonia. Cf. preface Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Ocean bottom -- Maps Benthos -- Habitat -- Maps Environmental mapping -- Case studies Submarine topography -- Maps -- Case studies Environmental mapping Ocean bottom Submarine topography Benthos Geomorphologie Kartierung Meeresboden Meerespflanzen Meerestiere Meeresökologie Genre/Form Case studies Maps Case studies. Maps. Études de cas. Cartes géographiques. Form Electronic book Author Harris, Peter T Baker, Elaine K GeoHab 2007 (2007 : Nouméa, New Caledonia) ISBN 9780123851406 0123851408

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