Assessing the living and dead proportions of cold-water coral colonies: implications for deep-water Marine Protected Area monitoring in a changing ocean

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Vad, J. (Johanne), Orejas, C. (Covadonga), Moreno-Navas, J. (Juan), Findlay, H.S. (Helen S.), Roberts, J.M. (John Murray)
• Other Authors: Vergés, A. (Adriana)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares 2017
• Subjects: Cold-water corals; Lophelia pertusa; Mingulay Reef Complex; PISCES site; Rockall bank; Colony size; Dead framework; Ocean acidification; Deep-water marine protected areas; Monitoring; Rockall Bank
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/11361; https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3705

Coral growth patterns result from an interplay of coral biology and environmental conditions. In this study colony size and proportion of live and dead skeletons in the cold-water coral (CWC) Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758) were measured using video footage from Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) tra...