Growth, reproduction and possible recruitment variability in the abyssal brittle star Ophiocten hastatum (Ophiuroidea:Echinodermata) in the NE Atlantic.

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
• Main Authors: Gage, John D, Anderson, Roslyn M, Tyler, Paul, Chapman, Rachel, Dolan, Emily
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: ROCKALL TROUGH; LJUNGMANI; PACIFIC; SEA-FLOOR; ECHINUS-AFFINIS; SIZE STRUCTURE; TIME-SERIES; OCEAN; PHYTODETRITUS; NORTHEAST ATLANTIC/; Pacific; Porcupine Seabight; Rockall Trough; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/en/publications/41697623-50e1-4a31-9c34-f5eece3ff1e8; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2004.01.007

Growth was studied from skeletal growth markers in the cosmopolitan abyssal brittle star Ophiocten hastatm. Samples for analysis were taken at five sites located in the southern (2900 in) and central (2000 m) Rockall Trough, at ca. 3000 and 4000m in the Porcupine Seabight, and at 4850m on the Porcup...