Coralfish Northeast Atlantic And Mediterranean Cold-Water Coral Habitats Catalogue

Brigitte Guillaumont, Fernando Tempera, Jaime Davies, Agostina Vertino, Lydia Beuck, Steinunn Hilma Ólafsdóttir, Chris Smith, Jan Helge Fosså, Inge Van Den Beld, Alessandra Savini, Anna Rengstorf, Anthony Grehan
2016 Zenodo  
The catalogue is an inventory of cold-water coral (CWC) habitats found across the NE Atlantic and Mediterranean. It was developed within the EU FP7 project CoralFISH to capture the variability of CWC habitats identified using a wealth of seafloor imagery datasets from across the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean. Depending on the resolution of the imagery being interpreted, this hierarchical scheme allows data to be recorded from broad CWC biotope categories down to detailed taxonomy-based
more » ... vels, thereby providing a flexible yet valuable information level for management. The CWC biotope classification scheme identifies 81 biotopes.
doi:10.5281/zenodo.580684 fatcat:nphpogrnl5fqtot7ab5257bmlm