Benthic Invertebrate Communities and Habitat Characterization of the Pourtalès Terrace, Florida with Analysis of the Deepwater Coral Habitat Areas of Particular Concern and the East Hump Marine Protected Area

• Main Author: Ash, Jana K.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: NSUWorks 2015
• Subjects: Pourtales Terrace; Habitat Characterization; Coral Habitat Areas of Particular Concern; Marine Protected Areas; Comprehensive Ecosystem-Based Amendment 1; Marine Biology; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Kraken; Lophelia pertusa
• Online Access: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/382; https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1387&context=occ_stuetd

The Pourtalès Terrace is a gently curved, narrow triangular platform that parallels the Florida Keys for 213 km running from southern Key Largo to between Key West and the Marquesas Keys. The main Terrace surface begins in 200 m and dips gently to approximately 450 m, where the Pourtalès Escarpment...