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- Hartill, E. C. (author)
Deep coral habitats of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska
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- 2020-08-04
- Public Library of Science (PLoS),2020
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- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236945DOI
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- Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (GBNPP) in Southeast Alaska is a system of glaciated fjords with a unique and recent history of deglaciation. As such, it can serve as a natural laboratory for studying patterns of distribution in marine communities with proximity to glacial influence. In order to examine the changes in fjord-based coral communities, underwater photo-quadrats were collected during multipurpose dives with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) in March of 2016. Ten sites were chosen to represent the geochronological and oceanographic gradients present in GBNPP. Each site was surveyed vertically between 100 and 420 meters depth and photo-quadrats were extracted from the video strip transects for analysis. The ROV was equipped with onboard CTD which recorded environmental data (temperature and salinity), in order to confirm the uniformity of these characteristics at depth across the fjords. The percent cover and diversity of species were lowest near the glaciated heads of the fjords and highest in the Central Channel and at the mouths of the fjords. Diversity is highest where characteristics such as low sedimentation and increased tidal currents are predominant. The diverse communities at the mouths of the fjords and in the Central Channel were dominated by large colonies of the Red Tree Coral,Primnoa pacifica, as well as sponges, brachiopods, multiple species of cnidarians, echinoderms, molluscs and arthropods. The communities at the heads of the fjords were heavily dominated by pioneering species such as brachiopoda, hydrozoan turf, the encrusting stoloniferan coralSarcodyction incrustans, and smaller colonies ofP.pacifica. This research documents a gradient of species dominance from the Central Channel to the heads of the glaciated fjords, which is hypothesized to be driven by a combination of physical and biological factors such as glacial sedimentation, nutrient availability, larval dispersal, and competition.
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- NATURVETENSKAP Biologi Ekologi hsv//swe
- NATURAL SCIENCES Biological Sciences Ecology hsv//eng
- fjords
- sea
- assemblages
- abundance
- history
- inlet
- south
- gulf
- age
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- Waller, Rhian,1978Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Sven Lovén centrum för marina vetenskaper,The Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences(Swepub:gu)xwalrh (author)
- Auster, P. J. (author)
- Göteborgs universitetSven Lovén centrum för marina vetenskaper (creator_code:org_t)
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