“…Seamounts can form Taylor columns (Chapman & Haidvogel, 1992), localized upwelling and downwelling (White et al, 2007), internal waves to break resuspending sediment (Turnewitsch et al, 2013), tidal rectification (Brink, 1995;Mohn et al, 2009), and increased chlorophyll a concentrations (Leitner et al, 2020). Similarly, in shallow water coral reefs, it has recently been shown that variation in wind, wave, and climate regime have influenced the geomorphic development of different reef types (Blanchon et al, 2022). However, few studies have directly drawn the connection between these physical oceanographic changes (that are caused in part by the shape of the seamount) with the variation of their benthic communities; though seamounts are known to be hotspots of biodiversity (Rogers, 2018).…”