Age, growth and radiometric age validation of a deep-sea, habitat-forming gorgonian (Primnoa resedaeformis) from the Gulf of Alaska

By A. Andrews, Erik Cordes, M. M. Mahoney, Kristen M. Munk, K. Coale, G. Cailliet, J. Heifetz. Hydrobiologia, 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Coral habitat in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska: depth distribution, fine-scale species associations, and fisheries interactions (2006, background): “Many species are slow-growing, long-lived (Andrews et al. 2002), and sensitive to anthropogenic perturbations such as those caused by bottom-contact fishing gear (Krieger 2001; Reed 2002).”
• Radiocarbon-based ages and growth rates of Hawaiian deep-sea corals (2006, methodology): “…(Grigg 1974, 1976, Wilson et al. 2002), as well as applying radiometric techniques such as U/Th, 210Pb and radiocarbon dating (Griffin & Druffel 1989, Druffel et al. 1990, Druffel et al. 1995, Cheng et al. 2000, Adkins et al. 2002, Andrews et al. 2002, Risk et al. 2002, Adkins et al. 2004).”
• Benthic invertebrate communities on three seamounts off southern and central California, USA (2009, background): “…by longlived corals and dense aggregations of fishes, where species-rich benthic communities thrive (Rogers 1994, Koslow 1997, Richer de Forges et al. 2000, Koslow et al. 2001, Andrews et al. 2002, Grigg 2002, Risk et al. 2002, Rowden et al. 2002, Stocks 2004, Mortensen & BuhlMortensen 2005).”
• Impacts of bottom trawling on deep-coral ecosystems of seamounts are long-lasting (2009, background): “…al. 2002) but also clears the accumulated biogenic substratum (Watling & Norse 1998), which can be important as the base for settlement of new coral colonies on seamounts (Andrews et al. 2002) and as habitat for a variety of other sessile and mobile seamount-associated species (O’Hara et al. 2008).”
• Recovery in Antarctic benthos after iceberg disturbance: trends in benthic composition, abundance and growth forms (2004, methodology): “A related species, the deep gorgonian Primnoa resedaeformis, revealed annual growth ring formation and a maximum estimated age of 112 yr using growth and radiometric analyses (Andrews et al. 2002).”
• Effects of trawling on fish and invertebrates from deep-sea coral facies of Isidella elongata in the western Mediterranean (2011, background): “The very slow growth rates of deep-water corals (Andrews et al., 2002; Fosså et al., 2002; Krieger & Wing, 2002) make problematic the recovery of these habitats from trawling in the short and medium term.”
• A new method for measuring growth and age in the precious red coral Corallium rubrum (L.) (2004, methodology): “…species in general, has been carried out, as for reef corals, by observing skeleton density bands in thin cross-sections of a colony’s base (hereafter the ‘‘petrographic method’’) (Grigg 1974; GarciaRodriguez and Masso 1986; Santangelo et al. 1993; Mistri and Ceccherelli 1994; Andrews et al. 2002).”
• Morphology and growth of the deep-water gorgonians Primnoa resedaeformis and Paragorgia arborea (2005, methodology): “coral fragment that Andrews et al. (2002) studied was approximately 112 years and had a height of 197.5 cm. Studies of other azooxanthellate gorgonians (Paramuricea clavata and Lophogorgia ceratophyta) in the Mediterranean have revealed mean growth rates between 1.8 and 3.0 cm year 1 (Mistri and C”
• Deep cold‐water corals as nurseries for fish larvae (2012, result): “…they harbored were positively correlated (Figure 2a), a finding that raises some concern, given (1) the longevity and slow growth of sea pens and other CWCs (Andrews et al. 2002; Wilson et al. 2002) and (2) the apparent decline in both number and size of A grandiflorum colonies (Figure 2, b and c).”
• Are deep-water corals important habitats for fishes? (2005, background): “The colony collected from the Northeast Channel (Risk et al. 2002) has an estimated age of >300 years, which is in accordance with age estimates of the same species collected in Alaska (>100 years; Andrews et al. 2002 ).”