Cold-water coral reef frameworks, megafaunal communities and evidence for coral carbonate mounds on the Hatton Bank, north east Atlantic

• Published in: Facies
• Main Authors: Roberts, J.M., Henry, L.-A., Long, David, Hartley, J.P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2008
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Hatton Bank; Rockall Plateau; North East Atlantic; Paragorgia arborea
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/4437/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/4437/1/Roberts_et_al_text_post_referee_final.pdf; http://www.springerlink.com/content/0172-9179

Offshore banks and seamounts sustain diverse megafaunal communities, including framework reefs formed by cold-water corals. Few studies have quantified environmental effects on the alpha or beta diversity of these communities. We adopted an interdisciplinary approach that used historical geophysical...