Pål Buhl-Mortensen

TL;DR: A review of deep-sea habitats and their fauna can be found in this paper, where the authors discuss threats from anthropogenic activities to deep sea habitats and faunal communities.

TL;DR: The structural attributes and biotic effects of the habitats that corals, sea pens, sponges and xenophyophores offer other organisms and the biotic structures they create to habitat heterogeneity and diversity on the deep continental margins are highlighted.

TL;DR: In this paper, the MAREANO database is used to study fauna response to environmental heterogeneity at two different spatial scales: (1) broad scale, megahabitat (1-10s km), based on information about megafauna taxa observed during video surveys in the Nordland/Troms area, (2) fine scale, mesohabitat, based on the information about species composition documented with video records and bottom sampling gear from the bank “Tromsoflaket”.

TL;DR: In this paper, the U-series age patterns obtained on reef framework-forming cold-water corals collected over a nearly 6000km-long continental margin sector, extending from off Mauritania (17 degrees N; northwest Africa) to the southwestern Barents Sea (70 degrees N), northeastern Europe, reveal strong climate influences on the geographical distribution and sustained development of these ecosystems.

TL;DR: An overview of the main discussion and conclusions of a workshop, organised by the MeshAtlantic project, focusing upon the experience in using the EUNIS habitats classification across different countries and seas, together with case studies.