Role of cold-water Lophelia pertusa coral reefs as fish habitat in the NE Atlantic

• Main Authors: Costello, Mark J., McCrea, Mona, Freiwald, André, Lundälv, Tomas, Jonsson, Lisbeth, Bett, Brian J., van Weering, Tjeerd C. E., de Haas, Henk, Roberts, J. Murray, Allen, Damian
• Other Authors: Freiwald, A., Roberts, J. M.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2005
• Subjects: Indian; Norway; Pacific; Porcupine Seabight; Rockall Bank; Rockall Trough; Lophelia pertusa; North Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/38606/; https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27673-4_41

The rate of discovery of reefs of the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758) has been remarkable, and attributable to the increased use of underwater video. These reefs form a major three-dimensional habitat in deeper waters where little other ‘cover’ for fish is available. They are comm...