Archives for March, 2008

Hot-spot Ecosystem Research on European Margins (HERMES) March 2008

  • Posted by Andy
  • March 31, 2008

I’m in Carvoerio, Portugal presenting work done on the EU FP7 project HERMES regarding food supply mechanisms to a coral reef. Read the abstract below:
Internal waves provide a food supply mechanism for cold-water coral reefs
Andrew J. Davies, Marc Lavaleye, Magda Bergman, J. Murray Roberts, Hans Van Haren and Gerard Duineveld
The cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa forms [...]

Coastline configuration disrupts large-scale climatic forcing, leading to divergent temporal trends in wave exposure

  • Posted by Andy
  • March 21, 2008

Andrew J. Davies and Mark P. Johnson
Published in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (2006)
Both climate change and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) may influence coastal systems by altering wave exposure. The effects of such climatic forcing are often coherent over relatively large geographic areas. Temporal trends in wave exposure at any particular shore are, however, [...]