Role of cold-water Lophelia pertusa coral reefs as fish habitat in the NE Atlantic

By Mark John Costello, M. McCrea, A. Freiwald, T. Lundälv, Lisbeth Jønsson, B. Bett, T. V. Weering, H. Haas, J. M. Roberts, D. Allen. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Ocean Acidification and Its Potential Effects on Marine Ecosystems (2008, background): “Many of the species relationships are thought to be facultative, but nonetheless, high fish densities have been reported for these structure-forming ecosystems (Husebo et al. 2002; Costello et al. 2005; Stone 2006).”
Stable C and N isotopic composition of cold-water corals from the Newfoundland and Labrador continental slope: Examination of trophic, depth and spatial effects (2008, background): “, 2006) and create structurally complex habitat for invertebrates and fish (Henry and Roberts, 2007; Husebø et al., 2002; Krieger and Wing, 2002; Costello et al., 2005; Edinger et al., 2007).”
Deep-sea sponge grounds enhance diversity and abundance of epibenthic megafauna in the Northwest Atlantic (2013, background): “…is exemplified in studies on deep-water reef-building corals such as Lophelia pertusa, whose reefs exhibit a higher diversity of fish and macrofauna species than surrounding soft bottom communities (Mortensen et al., 1995; Husebo et al., 2002; Costello et al., 2005; Buhl-Mortensen et al., 2010).”
Biological structures as a source of habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity on the deep ocean margins (2010, background): “A comparable study by Costello et al. (2005) on Lophelia reefs across eight sites in the northeast Atlantic observed 25 subspecies, 17 of which are of commercial importance.”
Using 3D photogrammetry from ROV video to quantify cold-water coral reef structural complexity and investigate its influence on biodiversity and community assemblage (2019, background): “…we typically observed most L. eques swimming and H. dactylopterus resting within centimetres of coral colonies indicating their behaviour was linked to the physical structure, likely for shelter and reproduction (Costello et al. 2005; Husebø et al. 2002; Henry et al. 2013; Corbera et al. 2019).”
Biodiversity of the white coral bank off Cape Santa Maria di Leuca (Mediterranean Sea): An update (2010, background): “pertusa) but also for other zooplanktivourous species that live in this particular biocoenosis (Costello et al., 2005).”
The fish fauna associated with deep coral banks off the southeastern United States (2007, background): “In the northeastern Atlantic, C. monstrosa was also reported from off reef (Mortensen et al., 1995; Freiwald et al., 2002; Costello et al., 2005) and coral rubble habitats near Lophelia reefs (Costello et al., 2005).”
Trophic relationships in a deep Mediterranean cold-water coral bank (Santa Maria di Leuca, Ionian Sea) (2009, background): “They also act as a potential refuge, nursery and feeding ground for many deep-sea species, including commercial fishes (Husebø et al. 2002, Krieger & Wing 2002, Costello et al. 2005, Ross & Quattrini 2007, D’Onghia et al. 2010).”
When the species is also a habitat: Comparing the predictively modelled distributions of Lophelia pertusa and the reef habitat it forms (2011, background): “They may also have an important role as essential fish habitat but this is not yet clear (Husebø et al., 2002; Auster, 2005; Costello et al., 2005).”