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Resting stages in a submarine canyon: a component of shallow-deep-sea coupling?

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Island, Ocean and Deep-Sea Biology

Part of the book series: Developments in Hydrobiology ((DIHY,volume 152))

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The ecological importance of resting stages in shallow waters is well known, but their presence in the deep sea is practically unrecorded. Samples of sinking particles were collected from April 1993 to May 1994 in and around the Foix Canyon (northwest Mediterranean Sea) using PPS3 sediment traps located between —600 m and —1180 m. Dead and viable organisms were collected, and inorganic empty shells constituted most of the biologically-derived matter. Resting stages, considered as POM, had a flux of up to 70 000 items m−2 d−1. They were the second most abundant fraction of total POM after tintinnids (mainly represented by empty, chitinous loricas), and first of the viable POM fraction. Most remained unidentified, but 58 morphotypes were referable to coastal species of Dinophyta, Tintinnina and Calanoida. Resting stages were rare in samples collected from the open slope adjacent to the canyon. These preliminary data suggest an important role of submarine canyons in concentrating POM and transferring it from shallow to deep-sea habitats. Due to their resistance to degradation processes, resting stages are probably the only POM component that can return to shallow areas by upwelling currents occurring in the canyon.

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  1. Dipartimento di Biologia, Stazione di Biologia Marina, CoNISMa, Università degli Studi di Lecce, 73100, Lecce, Italy

    Luigi Della Tommasa, Genuario Belmonte & Ferdinando Boero

  2. Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Plaça del Mar s/n, 08039, Barcelona, Spain

    Alberto Palanques & Pere Puig

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Tommasa, L.D., Belmonte, G., Palanques, A., Puig, P., Boero, F. (2000). Resting stages in a submarine canyon: a component of shallow-deep-sea coupling?. In: Jones, M.B., Azevedo, J.M.N., Neto, A.I., Costa, A.C., Martins, A.M.F. (eds) Island, Ocean and Deep-Sea Biology. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 152. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1982-7_23

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