CoralFISH Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Cold-Water Coral Habitats Catalogue

• Main Authors: Guillaumont, Brigitte, Tempera, Fernando, Davies, Jaime, Vertino, Agostina, Beuck, Lydia, Ólafsdóttir, Steinunn Hilma, Smith, Chris, Fosså, Jan Helge, Van Den Beld, Inge, Savini, Alessandra, Rengstorf, Anna, Grehan, Anthony
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Cold-water corals; Biotopes; Habitat classification; Deep-sea coral habitats; CoralFISH; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/580684; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.580684

The catalogue is an inventory of cold-water coral (CWC) habitats found across the NE Atlantic and Mediterranean. It was developed within the EU FP7 project CoralFISH to capture the variability of CWC habitats identified using a wealth of seafloor imagery datasets from across the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean. Depending on the resolution of the imagery being interpreted, this hierarchical scheme allows data to be recorded from broad CWC biotope categories down to detailed taxonomy-based levels, thereby providing a flexible yet valuable information level for management. The CWC biotope classification scheme identifies 81 biotopes.