The fires of the summer of 2022 made an impression, but the forests were not the only ones to have paid a heavy price during the heat waves which followed one another from June to August.
The seabed also suffered.
“We talked a lot about the exceptional temperatures of the Mediterranean this summer, but more to say that it was nice for swimmers than to explain how it was very serious for ecosystems
, regrets Stéphane Sartoretto, researcher at the Provence-Azur Resources laboratory. - Ifremer Corsica.
Unlike burning forests, underwater damage goes unnoticed by the general public.”
Mediterranean red gorgonians have been among the hardest hit species, with massive mortality recorded in many areas around the Mediterranean.
However, these animal cousins of corals play a major role in the protection of biodiversity.
But populations of gorgonians also live in much deeper waters…
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