Biodiversity of bathyal coral gardens – portrait of a uniserial bryozoan endemic to the South Azorean Seamount Chain: an unexpected evolutionary testbed?
Sur les pentes de l’étage bathyal, les coraux scléractiniaires branchus produisent des constructions tridimensionnelles et des débris qui sont des substrats durs particulièrement favorables aux bryozoaires.
On slopes of the bathyal zone, branched scleractinian corals produce three-dimensional constructions and rubble which provide hard substrates particularly suitable for encrusting bryozoans.