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Building your own mountain: the effects, limits, and drawbacks of cold-water coral ecosystem engineering
Anna-Selma van der Kaaden
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, P.O. Box 140, 4400 AC Yerseke, the Netherlands
Department of Environmental Sciences, Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Sandra R. Maier
Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, P.O. Box 140, 4400 AC Yerseke, the Netherlands
Greenland Climate Research Centre, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Greenland
Siluo Chen
Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, P.O. Box 140, 4400 AC Yerseke, the Netherlands
Department of Environmental Sciences, Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Laurence H. De Clippele
University of Glasgow, School of Biodiversity, One Health, and Veterinary Medicine, Glasgow, Scotland
Evert de Froe
Department of Ocean Systems, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Yerseke, the Netherlands
Theo Gerkema
Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, P.O. Box 140, 4400 AC Yerseke, the Netherlands
Johan van de Koppel
Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, P.O. Box 140, 4400 AC Yerseke, the Netherlands
Conservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
Furu Mienis
Department of Ocean Systems, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Yerseke, the Netherlands
Christian Mohn
Deparment of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
Max Rietkerk
Department of Environmental Sciences, Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Karline Soetaert
Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, P.O. Box 140, 4400 AC Yerseke, the Netherlands
Dick van Oevelen
Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, P.O. Box 140, 4400 AC Yerseke, the Netherlands
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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.
Combining hydrodynamic simulations and annotated videos, we separated which hydrodynamic...
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