Impacts on the Deep-Sea Ecosystem by a Severe Coastal Storm

摘要: Major coastal storms, associated with strong winds, high waves and intensified currents, occasionally heavy rains flash floods, are mostly known because of the serious damage they can cause along shoreline threats pose to navigation. However, there is a profound lack knowledge on deep-sea impacts severe storms. Concurrent measurements key parameters coast in extremely rare. Here we present unique data set showing how one most extreme storms last decades lashing Western Mediterranean Sea rapidly impacted ecosystem. The storm peaked 26th December 2008 leading remobilization shallow-water reservoir marine organic carbon fine particles resulting its redistribution across deep basin. also initiated movement large amounts coarse shelf sediment, which abraded buried benthic communities. Our findings demonstrate, first, that highly efficient transporting from shallow water water, thus contributing sequestration and, second, natural, intermittent atmospheric drivers sensitive global climate change have potential tremendously impact largest least ecosystem Earth,