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Reefs of the Deep: The Biology and Geology of Cold-Water Coral Ecosystems

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Advances reviewed here include the use of corals as paleoclimatic archives and their biogeological functioning, biodiversity, and biogeography, and the impacts of deep-water trawling and effects of ocean acidification.
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Coral reefs are generally associated with shallow tropical seas; however, recent deep-ocean exploration using advanced acoustics and submersibles has revealed unexpectedly widespread and diverse coral ecosystems in deep waters on continental shelves, slopes, seamounts, and ridge systems around the world. Advances reviewed here include the use of corals as paleoclimatic archives and their biogeological functioning, biodiversity, and biogeography. Threats to these fragile, long-lived, and rich ecosystems are mounting: The impacts of deep-water trawling are already widespread, and effects of ocean acidification are potentially devastating.

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Ocean Acidification: The Other CO 2 Problem

TL;DR: The potential for marine organisms to adapt to increasing CO2 and broader implications for ocean ecosystems are not well known; both are high priorities for future research as mentioned in this paper, and both are only imperfect analogs to current conditions.
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Couplings between changes in the climate system and biogeochemistry

TL;DR: Denman et al. as discussed by the authors presented the Couplings between changes in the climate system and biogeochemistry Coordinating Lead Authors: Kenneth L. Denman (Canada), Guy Brasseur (USA, Germany), Amnat Chidthaisong (Thailand), Philippe Ciais (France), Peter M. Cox (UK), Robert E. Austin (USA), D.B. Wofsy (USA) and Xiaoye Zhang (China).
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Ocean acidification and its potential effects on marine ecosystems.

TL;DR: The risk of irreversible ecosystem changes due to ocean acidification should enlighten the ongoing CO2 emissions debate and make it clear that the human dependence on fossil fuels must end quickly.
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Oceanography: anthropogenic carbon and ocean pH.

TL;DR: It is found that oceanic absorption of CO2 from fossil fuels may result in larger pH changes over the next several centuries than any inferred from the geological record of the past 300 million years.
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Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide

TL;DR: The oceans cover over two-thirds of the Earth's surface as discussed by the authors and play a vital role in global biogeochemical cycles, and contribute enormously to the planet's biodiversity and provide a livelihood for millions of people.
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Shifting roles of heterotrophy and autotrophy in coral energetics under varying turbidity.

TL;DR: This study is the first to show heterotrophic plasticity in a symbiotic coral, and to show that such plasticity can offset stress from high particle loads, and demonstrates that changes in the trophic mode of some coral species are a mechanism for sustaining a positive energy balance in turbid environments, thereby broadening their physiological niche.
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The deep-water coral Lophelia pertusa in Norwegian waters: distribution and fishery impacts

TL;DR: The results show that the corals are abundant particularly on the mid Norwegian continental shelf between 200 and 400 m depth, and in general it seems that the largest densities are distributed along the continental break and at ridges of morainic origin.
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