Cold-water coral habitat map**: trends and developments in acquisition and processing methods

A Lim, AJ Wheeler, L Conti - Geosciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cold-water coral (CWC) habitats are considered important centers of biodiversity in the deep
sea, acting as spawning grounds and feeding area for many fish and invertebrates. Given …

Influence of benthic currents on cold-water coral habitats: a combined benthic monitoring and 3D photogrammetric investigation

A Lim, AJ Wheeler, DM Price, L O'Reilly, K Harris… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Strong currents are a key component of benthic habitats by supplying food and nutrients to
filter-feeding organisms such as cold-water corals. Although field measurements show that …

3D-Representations for studying deep-sea coral habitats in the Lacaze-Duthiers Canyon, from geological settings to individual specimens

MC Fabri, O Dugornay, X de La Bernardie… - Deep Sea Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Lacaze-Duthiers Canyon is located in the western Mediterranean Sea and is
long known for hosting cold-water coral colonies in the canyon head region at depths …

Cold-water corals in decline–A temporal (4 year) species abundance and biodiversity appraisal of complete photomosaiced cold-water coral reef on the Irish Margin

CM Boolukos, A Lim, RM O'Riordan… - Deep Sea Research Part I …, 2019 - Elsevier
Scleractinian cold-water corals (CWCs), such as Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata,
build complex frameworks and carbonate mound habitats in the deep-sea and are regarded …

Fine-scale heterogeneity of a cold-water coral reef and its influence on the distribution of associated taxa

DM Price, A Lim, A Callaway, MP Eichhorn… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Benthic fauna form spatial patterns which are the result of both biotic and abiotic processes,
which can be quantified with a range of landscape ecology descriptors. Fine-to medium …

High resolution map** of a cold water coral mound

LA Conti, A Lim, AJ Wheeler - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Cold-water coral (CWC) mounds are biogenic, long-lived morphostructures composed
primarily by scleractinian CWC's and hemipelagic sediments that form complex deep-sea …

[HTML][HTML] Accumulation of marine litter in cold-water coral habitats: A comparative study of two Irish Special Areas of Conservation, NE Atlantic

JKM Appah, O Killeen, A Lim, R O'Riordan… - Marine Pollution …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cold-water corals (CWCs) have come under threat from anthropogenic activities such as
fishing despite their ecological significance as biodiversity hotspots and as such are being …

High-resolution 3D map** of cold-water coral reefs using machine learning

LMC de Oliveira, A Lim, LA Conti… - … in Environmental Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry is a time and cost-effective method for high-
resolution 3D map** of cold-water corals (CWC) reefs and deep-water environments. The …