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Mapping, habitat characterization, and fish surveys of the deep-water Oculina coral reef Marine Protected Area: a review of historical and current research

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Date Issued:
2005
Title: Mapping, habitat characterization, and fish surveys of the deep-water Oculina coral reef Marine Protected Area: a review of historical and current research.
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Name(s): Reed, John K., creator
Shepard, Andrew N., creator
Koenig, Christopher C., creator
Scanlon, Kathryn M., creator
Gilmore, R. G., creator
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Issuance: single unit
Date Issued: 2005
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Extent: 24 p.
Physical Description: pdf
Language(s): English
Identifier: 3172802 (digitool), FADT3172802 (IID), fau:5677 (fedora), 10.1007/3-540-27673-4 (doi)
Note(s): Deep-water Oculina coral reefs, which are similar in structure and development to deep-water Lophelia reefs, stretch 167 km (90 nm) at depths of 60-100 m along the eastern Florida shelf of the United States. These consist of numerous pinnacles and ridges, 3-35 m in height, that are capped with thickets of living and dead coral, Oculina varicosa. Extensive areas of dead Oculina rubble are due in part to human impacts (e.g., fish and shrimp trawling, scallop dredging, anchoring, bottom longlines, and depth charges) but also may be due in part to natural processes such as bioerosion, disease, or global warming.
This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available at http://www.springerlink.com and may be cited as: Reed, J. K., Shepard, A. N., Koenig, C. C., Scanlon, K. M., & Gilmore, R. G., Jr. (2005). Mapping, habitat characterization, and fish surveys of the deep-water Oculina coral reef Marine Protected Area: a review of historical and current research. In A. Freiwald & J. M. Roberts (Eds.), Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems. (pp. 443-465). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/3-540-27673-4
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1549.
Subject(s): Oculinidae
Marine biodiversity conservation
Marine resources conservation
Mapping
Habitat conservation
Fish surveys
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3172802
Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27673-4
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Host Institution: FAU