Assessing the living and dead proportions of cold-water coral colonies: implications for deep-water Marine Protected Area monitoring in a changing ocean
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...
Published in: | PeerJ |
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Main Authors: | , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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2017
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Online Access: | https://zenodo.org/record/4265287 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3705 |