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...

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Autores principales: Vad, Johanne, Orejas, Covadonga, Moreno-Navas, Juan, Findlay, Helen S., Roberts, J. Murray
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2017
Materias:
Conservation Biology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5632539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29018595
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3705

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5632539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29018595
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3705

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