Environmental factors influencing cold-1 water coral ecosystems in the oxygen 2 minimum zones on the Angolan and 3 Namibian margins 4 5

Environmental factors influencing cold1 water coral ecosystems in the oxygen 2 minimum zones on the Angolan and 3 Namibian margins 4 5 Ulrike Hanz1, Claudia Wienberg2, Dierk Hebbeln2, Gerard Duineveld1, Marc Lavaleye1, Katriina 6 Juva3, Wolf-Christian Dullo3, André Freiwald4, Leonardo Tamborrino2, Gert-Jan Reichart1,5, 7 Sascha Flögel3, Furu Mienis1 8 1NIOZ-Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Department of Ocean Systems, Texel, 9 1797SH, Netherlands 10 2MARUM–Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28359, Germany 11 3GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, 24148, Germany 12 4Department for Marine Research, Senckenberg Institute, Wilhelmshaven, 26382, Germany 13 5 Faculty of Geosciences, Earth Sciences Department, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3512JE, Netherlands 14

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