Impacts of bottom trawling on deep-coral ecosystems of seamounts are long-lasting
By F. Althaus, Alan Williams, Thomas A. Schlacher, Rudy J. Kloser, Mark A. Green, B. Barker, N. Bax, P. Brodie, M. Schlacher-Hoenlinger. 2009
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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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- Using 3D photogrammetry from ROV video to quantify cold-water coral reef structural complexity and investigate its influence on biodiversity and community assemblage (2019, background): “Due to their complex terrain, submarine canyons may provide important refugia for cold-water coral assemblages (Huvenne et al. 2011) that are vulnerable to destructive fishing practices elsewhere (Fossa et al. 2002; Davies et al. 2007; Althaus et al. 2009; Huvenne et al. 2016a).”
- Little Evidence of Benthic Community Resilience to Bottom Trawling on Seamounts After 15 Years (2019, background): “It has been speculated that early recolonisers on the Graveyard Knolls might include stylasterid hydrocorals (Clark and Rowden, 2009) and comatulid crinoids, and similarly observations on some Tasmanian seamounts have suggested that both stylasterids (Williams et al., 2010) and anemones (Clark et al”
- On some hypotheses of diversity of animal life at great depths on the sea floor (2015, background): “It has been postulated that refugia may be important in recovery (Power 1999); parts of the habitat in larger disturbed areas are thought to better resist impacts (e.g. corals in rocky clefts and crevices escaping the physical impacts of bottom trawls on rugged seamounts; Althaus et al. 2009).”
- Global habitat suitability of cold‐water octocorals (2012, background): “The limited observations that do exist are based on broader cold-water coral communities and suggest that no or very limited recolonization occurs several decades after impact (Althaus et al., 2009).”
- Effects of chronic low carbonate saturation levels on the distribution, growth and skeletal chemistry of deep-sea corals and other seamount megabenthos (2011, background): “…an extensive benthic community, dominated at depths <1300 m by the reefforming scleractinians Solenosmilia variabilis and Enallopsammia rostrata, and deeper by hormathiid anemones, bathylasmatid barnacles and isidid gorgonians (Koslow et al. 2001, Althaus et al. 2009, Thresher et al. 2011a).”
- Man and the Last Great Wilderness: Human Impact on the Deep Sea (2011, background): “Recovery of cold-water assemblages from fishing disturbance occurs slowly, even after fishing has ceased for 5–10 years there have been no signs of faunal recovery [154,155].”
- Habitat-forming cold-water corals show affinity for seamounts in the New Zealand region (2011, background): “…the established relationship between bottom trawling and the impact on habitat-forming corals and associated invertebrates (Koslow et al. 2001, Althaus et al. 2009, Clark & Rowden 2009), and the past distribution of bottom trawling in the New Zealand region (Baird et al. 2010) in areas…”