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Influence of the summer deep-sea circulations on passive drifts among the submarine canyons in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea
Morane Clavel-Henry
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institut de Cienciès del Mar, Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona, Spain
Jordi Solé
Institut de Cienciès del Mar, Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona, Spain
Miguel-Ángel Ahumada-Sempoal
Universidad del Mar, Puerto Angel, 70902, Oaxaca, Mexico
Nixon Bahamon
Institut de Cienciès del Mar, Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona, Spain
Centre d'estudis avançats de Blanes, Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas, Blanes, Spain
Florence Briton
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, Paris
Tech. Palaiseau, France
Guiomar Rotllant
Institut de Cienciès del Mar, Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona, Spain
Joan B. Company
Institut de Cienciès del Mar, Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona, Spain
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Short summary
Deep-sea connectivity research is scarce but needed for understanding marine population dynamics and dispersal of animal early-life stages. Here, we modeled near-bottom particle drifts along a continental margin crossed by submarine canyons. The bottom current impacting particle drifts is influenced by uneven topographic structures like submarine canyons. Thus, models with a good representation of the bottom geomorphological structures contribute to improving the deep-sea larval drift modeling.
Deep-sea connectivity research is scarce but needed for understanding marine population dynamics...
