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 J, Findlay H-S, Roberts JM
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Rockall Bank; Lophelia pertusa; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4265287; 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...