top of page

 GREENMOUNT - Seamount benthic primary production: a new hypothesis to explain abundance and biodiversity over shallow seamounts

Objectives

Participating institutions

Get in touch

  • to study primary production of Gorringe  peaks and to compare it with other organic matter sources
  • to establish how benthic primary production is incorporated into the local food webs 
  • Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, I.P. (INIAV) - Departamento do Mar e Recursos Marinhos (DMRM)

Funding:

Photos by José Tourais

Project reference: PTDC/MAR/111011/2009

bottom of page