#mesophotic — Public Fediverse posts

🚨 New paper!
The waves we see at the beach only go so deep, so what shapes reefs in deeper waters? Using the cutting-edge in seafloor imaging, we're trying to figure that out and have found so far complex interactions between bottom currents and internal waves.

Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sed.70068

#Reefs #Ocean #Mesophotic

Talking about #mesophotic #reefs in the eastern Mediterranean and what shapes them (at the IAAS meeting).

Parce que c'est notre maison, parce que c'est important, veuillez s'il vous plaît signer le Manifeste Mésophotique!
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Because it's our home, because it's important, please sign the Mesophotic Manifesto!

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#Ecologie #Ecology #DeepEcology #Mesophotic #Oceans #Manifeste #Manifesto

New paper!
We usually think of #sediment getting finer as we move away from the shore. But, when biogenic and oceanographic factors come into play in the #mesophotic zone, the patterns could be quite different.
I'm really happy with how this paper came out. It's a very holistic view of how sedimentary #facies are actually distributed, with #seafloor photography, acoustic imaging, sampling, quantitative thin section analysis, and #multivariant statistics.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10347-024-00690-1

Looking for numbers on community #calcification rate. It seems the literature has only two options "#reef" (shallow, corals) or "#plankton"...
Temperate reefs? #Mesophotic reefs? Calcareous algae meadows? #Seagrass epiphytes? Sorry, nothing for you.

#NewPaper out in the world!
What destroys a #carbonate (#mesophotic) platform? It turns out that erosion, destabilization, and lower slope dismantling all work independently of each other.
https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025322724001452
More cool results from expedition #SO292

New paper!

With me and colb. from expedition #SO292. From the Queensland Plateau, we present to you - a new type of ( #Mesophotic ) #Halimeda #bioherm, one that possibly got its shape by #storms.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00338-024-02500-0

#ClimateCrisis: Scientists discover deepest known evidence of #coral reef bleaching https://phys.org/news/2023-10-scientists-deepest-evidence-coral-reef.html

#Mesophotic #CoralBleaching associated with changes in #thermocline depth: Clara Diaz et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42279-2

"This is a huge surprise. Deeper #corals had always been thought of as being resilient to #ocean #warming, because the waters they inhabit are cooler than at the surface and were believed to remain relatively stable. However, that is clearly not the case"

New #PrePrint out!
#Mesophotic #reefs are different from Euphotic ones, but not only biologically, also sedimentologically. With cutting-edge #AUV and #SyntheticApertureSonar, we can begin to see how.
https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/4956/