Articles | Volume 21, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-973-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-973-2024
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22 Feb 2024
Research article |  | 22 Feb 2024

Building your own mountain: the effects, limits, and drawbacks of cold-water coral ecosystem engineering

Anna-Selma van der Kaaden, Sandra R. Maier, Siluo Chen, Laurence H. De Clippele, Evert de Froe, Theo Gerkema, Johan van de Koppel, Furu Mienis, Christian Mohn, Max Rietkerk, Karline Soetaert, and Dick van Oevelen

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Combining hydrodynamic simulations and annotated videos, we separated which hydrodynamic variables that determine reef cover are engineered by cold-water corals and which are not. Around coral mounds, hydrodynamic zones seem to create a typical reef zonation, restricting corals from moving deeper (the expected response to climate warming). But non-engineered downward velocities in winter (e.g. deep winter mixing) seem more important for coral reef growth than coral engineering.
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