Lophelia - Wikipedia
WEBLophelia pertusa is a reef building, deep water coral, but it does not contain zooxanthellae, the symbiotic algae which lives inside most tropical reef building corals. [6] Lophelia lives at a temperature range from about 4–12 °C (39–54 °F) and at depths between 80 metres (260 ft) and over 3,000 metres (9,800 ft), but most commonly at ...
Multi-Partner Mapping Effort Reveals Largest Known Deep-sea Coral Reef …
WEBJan 17, 2024 · Dense thickets of the reef-building coral Desmophyllum pertusum (previously called Lophelia pertusa) make up most of the deep-sea coral reef habitat found on the Blake Plateau in the Atlantic Ocean. The white coloring is healthy – deep-sea corals don’t rely on symbiotic algae, so they can’t bleach.
Largest deep-sea coral reef to date is mapped by scientists off the …
WEBJan 19, 2024 · This image provided by NOAA Ocean Exploration shows large amounts of Lophelia pertusa stony coral found at the top of the crest of Richardson Ridge on the Blake Plateau off the coast of South Carolina in 2018.
Cold-water coral (Lophelia pertusa) response to multiple …
WEBFeb 4, 2020 · Lophelia pertusa is a framework-forming cold-water coral that supports numerous ecosystem services in the deep ocean. These corals are threatened by increasing anthropogenic impacts to the...
Lophelia Pertusa: an Ode to the Cold-Water Coral - Reefbites
WEBJun 16, 2020 · Lophelia Pertusa: an Ode to the Cold-Water Coral. Written by Sofia Perez. You, an intrepid ocean ROV, begin descending into the icy Norwegian inlet Tysfjord, North of the Arctic Circle. Your robotic eyes wide with wonder, you sink past familiar organisms- kelp and anemones, then fall into a twilight zone 200ft. down dominated by …
Role of cold-water Lophelia pertusa coral reefs as fish habitat in …
WEBThe rate of discovery of reefs of the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758) has been remarkable, and attributable to the increased use of underwater video. These reefs form a major three-dimensional habitat in deeper waters where little …
Global distribution of the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa
WEBJun 9, 2021 · Lophelia pertusa plays an important role as a major contributor to many cold-water coral reefs, supporting a high diversity of associated benthic and benthopelagic species. Due to the high sensitivity of L. pertusa to human activity, it has been classified as indicator species for Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems.
Multi-scale crystallographic ordering in the cold-water coral Lophelia ...
WEBAug 21, 2017 · Lophelia pertusa is a colonial reef-building scleractinian cold-water coral species widely distributed in Plio-Pleistocene to modern marine waters 1. It dominates modern reef frameworks...
Lophelia pertusa - ADW
WEBHabitat. This species is a cold-water stony coral, preferring temperatures of 4-12º C. Deepwater white coral can be seen at depths ranging from 39-3000 m, but is most commonly found at depths of 200-1000 m.
Status Assessment 2022 - Lophelia pertusa reefs - OSPAR …
WEBWithin OSPAR Region I and Greater North Sea (Region II), selected Lophelia pertusa reefs have been revisited regularly since 2012 as a part of an IMR (Norway) monitoring program of coral reefs. This monitoring uses a combination of functional indicators (e.g. respiration, nutrient cycling and energy stores of collected coral fragments ...