First in situ documentation of a population of the coral Dendrophyllia ramea off Cyprus (Levantine Sea) and evidence of human impacts
2017
Orejas, Covadonga | Gori, Andrea | Jiménez, Carlos | Rivera, Jesús | Lo Iacono, Claudio | Hadjioannou, Louis | Andreou, Vasilis | Petrou, Antonis | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
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Show more [+] Less [-]In June 2015, the deepest population of the coral Dendrophyllia ramea (Linnaeus, 1758) observed until the present day in the Mediterranean Sea, was discovered on soft bottom areas off Protaras, eastern Cyprus (35º02′N, 34º05′E). During the CYCLAMEN research expedition on board the RV AEGAEO, video data (ROV Max ROVER) showed a healthy, well-developed and dense population of D. ramea at 125-170 m depth. Video surveys revealed numerous and dense patches (up to 4 colonies m－2) of candelabra-shaped D. ramea colonies (Fig. 1A) of different lengths and heights, some larger than 50 cm (Fig. 1B). […]
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