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, Orejas, C, Moreno Navas, JMN, Findlay, HS, Roberts, JM
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Biology; Ecology and Environment; Marine Sciences; Rockall Bank; Lophelia pertusa; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/7659/; http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/7659/3/3705.pdf; https://peerj.com/articles/3705/; 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...