Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals – Past, Present And Future

About this book

What do we know about Mediterranean cold (deep)-water coral ecosystems? In this book, specialists offer answers and insights with a series of chapters and short papers about the palaeoecology, biology, physiology and ecology of the corals and other organisms that comprise these ecosystems. Structured on a temporal axis – past, present and future – the reviews and selected study cases cover the cold and deep coral habitats known to date in the Mediterranean Basin. Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future illustrates and explains the deep Mediterranean coral habitats that might have originated similar thriving ecosystems in today’s Atlantic Ocean.