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Further informationon deep water corals

• Lophelia
• Carbonate mud mounds and cold water reefs
• Mud mounds
• Documentation of deep communities in the Skagerrak by ROV-techniques - fauna and environmental threats

Publications

(a) on the coral Lophelia

De Mol, B. (ed.) 1998. Geosphere-Biosphere Coupling: Carbonate Mud Mounds and Cold Water Reefs. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Workshop Report No. 143. [latest results of 1997 geological surveys of coral reefs and associated sea bed phenomena around Europe]

Frederiksen, R., Jensen, A. and Westerberg H. 1992. The distribution of the scleractinian coral Lophelia pertusa around the Faroe Islands and the relation to intertidal mixing. Sarsia 77, 53-69.

Freiwald, A. 1998. Geobiology of Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinia) reefs in the North Atlantic. Habilitationsschrift zur Erlangung der venia legendi am Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Universität Bremen, 116 pp. [key, well illustrated, review of latest information on geology and biology of Lophelia]

Henriet, J. P., De Mol S., Pillen S., Vanneste, M., Van Rooij, D., Versteeg, W., Croker, P.F., Shannon, P.M., Unnithan, V., Bouriak, S. and Chachkine P. 1998. Gas hydrate crystals may help build reefs. Nature 391, 648-649.

Hubendick, B., Hyle, G. and Swärd S. (eds) 1971. A survey of the marine benthonic macro-fauna along the Swedish west coast 1921-1938 by L. A. Jägersköld. Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum et Litterarum Gothoburgensis, Zoologica No. 6, 146 pp.

Hovland, M., Mortensen P. B., Brattegard T., Strass P. and Rokoengen K. 1998. Ahermatypic coral banks off mid-Norway: evidence for a link with seepage of light hydrocarbons. Palaios 13, 189-200.

Jensen, A. and Frederiksen R. 1992. The fauna associated with the bank forming deepwater coral Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinaria) on the Faroe shelf. Sarsia 77, 53-69.

Kenyon, N.H., Ivanov, M.K. & Akhmetzhanov, A.M. (1998) Cold Water Carbonates Mounds and Sediment Transport on the NE Atlantic Margin. IOC Technical Report, 52

LeDanois, E. 1948. Les profondeurs de la Mer. Payot, Paris, 303 pp.

Mortensen, P. B., Hovlund, M., Brattegard, T. and Farestveit R. 1995. Deep water bioherms of the scleractinian coral Lophelia pertusa (L.) at 64 ^o N on the Norwegian shelf: structure and associated megafauna. Sarsia 80: 145-158.

Roberts, M. 1997. Coral in deep waters. New Scientist, 20 September 1997.

Shelton, G.A.B. 1980. Lophelia pertusa (L.): electrical conduction and behaviour in a deep-water coral. Journal of the marine biological Association of the United Kingdom 60, 517-528.

Stephens, J. 1909. Alcyonarian and madreporian corals of the Irish coasts. Fisheries, Ireland, Scientific Investigations, 1907, V, 1-28, 1 pl.

Svensen, R., Svensen R. and Emil Moen, F. 1998. The sea trees of Trondheim. Diver April 1998, 96-99.

Wilson, J.B. 1979a. The distribution of the coral Lophelia pertusa (L.) (L. prolifera (Pallas)) in the north east Atlantic. Journal of the marine biological Association of the United Kingdom 59, 149-164.

Wilson, J.B. 1979b. ‘Patch’ development of the deep-water coral Lophelia pertusa (L.) on Rockall Bank. Journal of the marine biological Association of the United Kingdom 59, 165-177.

(b) on deep sea life

Connolly, P. L. and Kelly, C. J. 1996. Irish research linked with the development of deep sea fisheries in the North East Atlantic. In: Keegan B. F. and O’Connor, R. (eds), Irish Marine Science 1995, Galway University Press, Galway, 325-336.

Gage, J. D. and Tyler, P. A. 1991. Deep sea biology: a natural history of organisms of the deep sea floor. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Pain, S. 1998. Extremeworms. New Scientist 159 (2144), 48-50.

Rice, A.L., Billett, D.S.M., Thurston, M.H. and Lampitt, R.S. 1991. The Institute of Oceanographic Sciences biology programme in the Porcupine Seabight: background and general introduction. Journal of the marine biological Association of the United Kingdom 71, 281-310.

(c) on marine biodiversity in Europe

Costello M.J., Emblow C.S. and Picton B.E. 1996. Long term trends in the discovery of marine species new to science which occur in Britain and Ireland. Journal of the marine biological Association of the United Kingdom 76, 255-257.

Heip, C., Warwick, R., d'Ozouville L., Costello M. J., Duarte Quesada C. M., Feral J-P., Gray J., Karakassis I., Olsen J. L., Vincx M., Weslawski J., Martin P. (1998). A European science plan on marine biodiversity. European Science Foundation, EMaPS Position Paper 2, Strasbourg, 20 pp.

The research to produce this article is a contribution by Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd (EcoServe) to the Year of the Ocean 1998.