Crumbling Reefs and Cold-Water Coral Habitat Loss in a Future Ocean: Evidence of “Coralporosis” as an Indicator of Habitat Integrity

Mingulay reef complex: an interdisciplinary study of cold-water coral habitat, hydrography and biodiversity

The Mingulay reef complex in the Sea of the Hebrides west of Scotland was first mapped in 2003 with a further survey in 2006 revealing previously unknown live coral reef areas at 120 to 190 m depth. Habitat mapping confirmed that distinctive mounded bathymetry was formed by reefs of Lophelia pertusa with surficial coral debris dating to almost 4000 yr. Benthic lander and mooring deployments rev...

Global habitat suitability of cold-water octocorals

Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4RY, UK, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Tinbergen Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK, United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, CB3 0DL, UK, Microsoft Research Computational Science Laboratory, Cambridge, CB3 0FB, UK, School of Ocean Sciences, Bang...

Overlap of Predicted Cold-water Coral Habitat and Bottom-contact Fisheries in British Columbia

Multispecies microbial mutualisms on coral reefs: the host as a habitat.

Reef-building corals associate with a diverse array of eukaryotic and noneukaryotic microbes. Best known are dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium ("zooxanthellae"), which are photosynthetic symbionts found in all reef-building corals. Once considered a single species, they are now recognized as several large, genetically diverse groups that often co-occur within a single host species or co...

Mussel reefs in sub-littoral zone-An important habitat for infaunal and ichthyofaunal diversity

A Sub-littoral mussel reefs harbours rich and diverse invertebrate communities. They utilize the reef complex as their habitat, rich feeding substrate and also as refuge from predation. Though the invertebrate diversity of the reefs is available, reports pertaining to their relation to dietary habit of reef fishes are lacking. A study was taken up at the sub-littoral mussel reefs occurring off ...