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Correspondence of sea fan orientations with measured currents on hard bottom habitats of the Mississippi/Alabama continental shelf |
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| Authors: | Michael B Peccini Ian R MacDonald |
| Institution: | 1. I.M. Systems Group/NOAA Fisheries, Office of Habitat Conservation, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA;2. School of Physical and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi, 6300 Ocean Dr., Corpus Christi, TX 78412, USA |
| Abstract: | The orientations of 368 gorgonian and antipatharian sea fans were measured using video taken with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) within five study areas on the Mississippi/Alabama continental shelf. Sea fans were oriented nonrandomly and exhibited a strongly preferred direction of orientation at each of the five study sites. Orientations corresponded closely to the mean direction of the time-averaged current flow measured synoptically from 11 current meters in the vicinity of the study sites. |
| Keywords: | Sea Fan Orientation Coral Gorgonian Antipatharian Water currents |
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