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, Johanne, Orejas, Covadonga, Moreno-Navas, Juan, Findlay, Helen S., Roberts, J. Murray
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ Inc. 2017
• Subjects: Conservation Biology; Rockall Bank; Lophelia pertusa; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5632539/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29018595; 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...