An overview on biodiversity and ecosystems off Mauritanian deep-waters

  1. Ana Ramos Martos
  2. José Luis Sanz
  3. Josep L. Pelegrí
  4. Lourdes Fernández Peralta
  5. Pedro J. Pascual Alayón
  6. Fran Ramil
  7. Sara Castillo Oñate
  8. Eva García Isarch
  9. Francisco Rocha Valdés
  10. Marta Gil González
  11. Belén Calero Blanco
Libro:
Deep-Sea Ecosystems Off Mauritania: Research of Marine Biodiversity and Habitats in the Northwest African Margin
  1. Ramos Martos, Ana (ed. lit.)
  2. Ramil Blanco, Francisco (ed. lit.)
  3. Sanz, José Luis (ed. lit.)

Editorial: Springer Alemania

ISBN: 978-94-024-1021-1

Ano de publicación: 2017

Páxinas: 615-659

Tipo: Capítulo de libro

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-1023-5_17 SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-85035322252 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Resumo

Human activities in continental margins have progressively increased during the last decades, threatening vulnerable marine ecosystems in many continental slopes, such as cold-water coral reefs, seamounts and canyons. In order to protect these ecosystems and ensure the sustainable management of resources, countries and organizations should endorse effective policy actions. However, nowadays about only 0.8% of the oceans and 6% of the territorial seas belong to conservation area systems, a lack of protection that is particularly acute in deep-sea waters. The Mauritanian continental margin is the outcome of exceptional marine features, with abrupt canyon systems, sediment slides and a giant carbonate.

Fonte de datos: Dialnet