Remote Sensing of the Tautra Ridge: An Overview of the World’s Shallowest Cold-Water Coral Reefs

Remote Sensing of the Tautra Ridge: An Overview of the World’s Shallowest Cold-Water Coral Reefs

On the Tautra Ridge – a 39-100 m deep morainic sill located in the middle of the Trondheimsfjord, Norway – some of the world’s shallowest known occurrences of the scleractinian cold-water coral (CWC) Desmophyllum pertusum can be found. The earliest D. pertusum records from the Tautra Ridge date back...

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Main Authors: Aksel Alstad Mogstad, Håvard Snefjellå Løvås, Øystein Sture, Geir Johnsen, Martin Ludvigsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
cold-water corals
Desmophyllum pertusum
Lophelia pertusa
habitat mapping
predictive modeling
multibeam echo sounding (MBES)
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.848888/full

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