Coral reefs in Norway
Lophelia pertusa

Publications from IMR

Fosså, J.H., D. Furevik and P.B. Mortensen 1997. Methods for detecting and mapping of Lophelia coral banks: preliminary results. - ICES Benthos Ecology Working Group, Gdynia, Poland, 23 - 26 Apr. 1997. 17 pp.

Fosså, J.H. & P.B. Mortensen 1998. Artsmangfoldet på Lophelia-korallrev og metoder for kartlegging og overvåkning. - Fisken og Havet nr 17 - 1998. 95 pp.

Fosså, J.H, D.M. Furevik, P. B. Mortensen and M. Hovland 1999. Effects of bottom trawling on Lophelia deep water coral reefs on the continental shelf of Norway. Poster and abstract in ICES/SCOR Symposium on Ecological Effects of Fishing. Montpellier, France, 15-19 March 1999.

Fosså, J.H., P.B. Mortensen and D.M. Furevik 2000. Lophelia korallrev langs norskekysten. Forekomst og tilstand. – Fisken og havet nr. 2, 2000. 94 pp.

Fosså, J.H. & T. Thorsnes 2000: Grootste koud water koralriffen ontdeckt in Noorse kustwateren. - Mens und Wetenschaap 7:472-475.

Fosså, J.H. 2001. Discovering cold-water coral reefs. ICES CIEM Newsletter. No. 38, December 2001.

Fosså, J.H., P.B. Mortensen and D.M. Furevik 2002. The deep-water coral Lophelia pertusa in Norwegian waters; distribution and fishery impacts. Hydrobiologia 417:1-12. (Please note that the pdf file is for personal use only)

Fosså, J.H. (in press). Deep Water Coral Ecosystems (Box 2). In: Field, J.G., Hempel, G. and Summerhayes, C.P. (eds). Oceans 2020: Science for future needs. IOC, SCOR.

Furevik, D. M., J.H. Fosså and P.B. Mortensen 2000. Damage of deep-water coral reefs (Lophelia pertusa) and fish distribution on and off the coral reefs. ICES Working Group Fisheries Technology Fish Behaviour, Haarlem, Netherlands, April 10-14, 2000.

Hall-Spencer, J., V. Allain and J.H. Fosså 2002. Trawling damage to Northeast Atlantic ancient coral reefs. – Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 269:507-511.

Hovland, M., P. B. Mortensen, E. Thomsen and T. Brattegard 1997. Substratum-related ahermatypic corals on the Norwegian continental shelf. - Proceedings of the 8th. International coral reef symposium. Vol. 2, Panama 1996, pp 1203-1206.

Hovland, M., P.B. Mortensen, T. Brattegard, P. Strass and K. Rokoengen 1998. Ahermatypic Coral Banks off Mid-Norway: Evidence for a Link with Seepage of Light Hydrocarbons. -Palaios 13:198.200.

Hovland, M., and P. B. Mortensen 1999. Norske korallrev og prosesser i havbunnen. - John Grieg forlag, Bergen 155 pp.

Husebø, Å., L. Nøttestad, J.H. Fosså, D.M. Furevik, and S.B. Jørgensen 2002. Distribution and abundance of fish in deep-sea coral habitats. Hydrobiologia 417:91-99. (Please note that the pdf file is for personal use only.)

Mortensen, P.B., M. Hovland, J.H. Fosså and D. Furevik 1998. Size and abundance of Lophelia banks in mid-Norwegian waters. - Carbonate mud mounds and cold water reefs, Conference, Ghent, Belgium, 7.- 14. February 1998 (abstract).

Mortensen, P.B. 1998. Ødelegger fisket korallrevene på den norske kontinentalsokkelen? - Fisken og havet, Special issue 2:71-74.

Mortensen, P.B. and H.T. Rapp 1998. Oxygen- and carbon isotope ratios related to growth line patterns in skeletons of Lophelia pertusa (L) (Anthozoa: Scleractinia): Implications for determination of linear extension rates. - Sarsia 83:433-446.

Mortensen, P.B. 2000. Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinia) in Norwegian waters. Distribution, growth, and associated fauna. - Dr. scient. Thesis, Department of Fisheries and Marine Biology, University of Bergen, Norway.

Mortensen P.B., J.M. Roberts and R.C. Sundt 2000. Video-assisted grabbing: a minimally destructive method of sampling azooxanthellate coral banks. - Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK 80:365-366.

Mortensen P.B. 2001. Aquarium observations on the deep-water coral Lophelia pertusa (L., 1758) (Scleractinia) and selected associated invertebrates. – Ophelia 54 (2):83-104.

Mortensen, P.B. og J.H. Fosså 2001. Korallrev og andre habitater på Tautraryggen i Trondheimsfjorden. Fisken og havet nr. 7 – 2001.

Mortensen, P.B., M.T. Hovland, J.H. Fosså and D.M. Furevik 2001. Distribution, abundance and size of Lophelia pertusa coral reefs in mid-Norway in relation to seabed characteristics. - Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK 81:581-597.

Ottesen, D., T. Thorsnes, L. Rise, J.H. Fosså, P.B. Mortensen and K. Olsen 2000. Multibeam swath bathymetry mapping of cold-water coral reefs on the Mid-Norwegian shelf. - Paper presented at the First International Symposium on Deep Sea Corals, Halifax, Canada.

Svellingen, I.K., Korneliussen, R.J., and Furevik, D. 2002. Acoustic discrimination of deep-sea coral reefs. Poster presentation – 6th ICES Symposium on Acoustics in Fisheries and Aquatic Ecology, Montpellier, France, 10 – 14 June 2002.

Thorsnes, T., J.H. Fosså og K. Olsen 2001. Det ukjente Norge. Ny metodikk oppdager nye korallrev. Side 114-118 i: Fosså, J.H. (red). Havets miljø 2001. Fisken og havet, særnr. 2-2001.