Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future

1. An introduction to the research on Mediterranean cold-water corals.- PART I - Past.- 2. Paleoecology of Mediterranean cold-water corals.- 3. Drop chapter. Cold water corals in the Mediterranean: a history of discovery.- 4. A turbulent story: Mediterranean contourites and cold-water corals.- 5. Drop chapter. Messinian salinity crisis: what happened to cold-water corals?.- 6. Drop chapter. Did Quaternary climate fluctuations affect Mediterranean deep-sea coral communities?.- 7. Drop chapter. A deglacial cold-water coral boom in the Alborán Sea: from coral mounds and species dominance.- 8. Drop chapter. Highly variable submarine landscapes in the Alborán Sea created by cold-water corals.- 9. Spatio-temporal distribution of Mediterranean cold-water corals.- 10. Drop chapter. Bathyal corals within the Aegean Sea and the adjacent Hellenic trench.- 11. Mediterranean cold-water corals as paleoclimate archives.- 12. Drop chapter: Tomography of cold-water corals - bearing cores.- 13. Drop chapter. Changing views about Mediterranean cold-water corals.- PART II - Present.- 14. Taxonomy, genetics and biodiversity of Mediterranean deep-sea corals and cold-water corals.- 15. Habitat mapping of cold-water corals in the Mediterranean Sea.- 16. Cold-water coral habitat mapping in the Mediterranean Sea: methodologies and perspectives.- 17. Drop chapter. Working with visual methods, comparison among the French deep-sea canyons.- 18. Review of the circulation and characteristics of intermediate water masses of the Mediterranean--implications for cold-water coral habitats.- 19. Occurrence and biogeography of Mediterranean cold-water corals.- 20. Drop chapter. Gorgonian and black coral assemblages in deep coastal bottoms and continental shelves of the Mediterranean Sea.- 21. Drop chapter. Mediterranean black coral communities.- 22. Drop chapter. Recent discoveries of extensive cold-water coral assemblages in Maltese waters.- 23. Drop chapter. Corals of Aphrodite: Dendrophyllia ramea populations of Cyprus.- 24. Drop chapter. Cold-water corals in fluid venting submarine structures.- 25. Drop chapter. Cold-water corals and mud volcanoes - life on a dynamic substrate.- 26. Occurrence of living cold-water corals at large depths within submarine canyons of the northwestern Mediterranean Sea.- 27. Drop chapter. Submarine canyons in the Mediterranean: a shelter for cold-water corals.- 28. Drop chapter. A cold-water coral habitat in La Fonera submarine canyon, northwestern Mediterranean Sea.- 29. Cold-water coral associated fauna in the Mediterranean Sea and adjacent areas.- 30. Cold-water corals as shelter, feeding and life-history critical habitats for fish species: ecological interactions and fishing impact.- 31. Past, present and future connectivity of Mediterranean cold-water corals: patterns, drivers and fate ina technically and environmentally changing world.- 32. Drop chapter. Desmophyllum dianthus genetics and more.- 33. Diversity of bacteria associated with the cold-water corals Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata.- 34. Drop chapter. Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata: An Archaea riddle?.- 35. Biology and ecophysiology of Mediterranean cold-water corals.- 36. Growth patterns of Mediterranean calcifying cold-water corals.- 37. Demography and conservation of deep corals: the study of population structure and dynamics.- 38. Cold-water coral in aquaria: advances and challenges. A focus on the Mediterranean.- 39. Drop chapter. Approaching cold-water corals to the society: novel ways to transfer knowledge.- PART III - Future.- 40. Perspectives of biophysical modelling with implications on biological connectivity of Mediterranean cold-water corals.- 41. Drop chapter. The interface between tectonic evolution and cold-water coral dynamics in the Mediterranean.- 42. Drop chapter. The Mediterranean is getting saltier: from the past to the future.- 43. Drop chapter. The spread of non-indigenous species in the Mediterranean - a threat to cold-water corals?.- 44. Fate of Mediterranean scleractinian cold-water corals as a result of global climate change. A synthesis. - 45. Drop chapter. A case study: variability in the calcification response of Mediterranean cold-water corals to ocean acidification.- 46. Conservation of cold-water corals in the Mediterranean: current status and future prospects for improvement.