[Coral-List] Book on "Deep-water coral reefs"

[Tom Hourigan - NOAA Federal]

Thanks Doug,

This use of the term "reef" for deepwater azooxanthellate scleractinian
bioherms was also well described by Roberts et al. (2009).  It is now
relatively widely accepted in the deep-sea literature.

 Roberts JM, Wheeler AJ, Freiwald A, Cairns SD (2009) Cold‐Water Corals:
The Biology and Geology of Deep‐Sea Coral Habitats
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/coldwater-corals/365F79150C9428A9EB6B03A24FA9DAB7>.
Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, UK

Tom

On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 3:04 PM Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> Hovland, Martin.  2008.  Deep-water coral reefs"  Springer
>
> https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781402084614
>
> So no question about this terminology being in general use in the
> scientific community.
>
> Chapter 1 Introduction
>
> "The term "coral reef" is traditionally used on large tropical
> shallow-water formations, which represent dangers to navigation.  Even
> though the deep-water coral accumulations do not represent dangerous
> "reefs", as such, it has become a habit calling them "reefs."  A viable,
> and perhaps more appropriate alternative would be to call them deep water
> "bioherms", but, even so, the more common reef concept will be used in this
> book."
>
> Cheers, Doug
>
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