Coastal Storm Impacts (IMAGE)

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Coastal Storm Impacts

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These are photographs of the impact of the coastal storm in shallow water. Above shows the loss of approximately 1 meter of sandy sediments. Below show uprooting of shoots of Posidonia oceanica. The extensive reworking of sediments by currents during the storm remobilised the shallow water reservoir of carbon and redistributed it across the deep basin.

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Jordi Regàs Sanchez-Vidal A, Canals M, Calafat AM, Lastras G, Pedrosa-Pa`mies R, et al. (2012) Impacts on the Deep-Sea Ecosystem by a Severe Coastal Storm. <I>PLoS ONE</I> 7(1): e30395. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030395

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