Some References on Gorgonian Growth Rates

Cary L.R. 1914.

Observations upon the growth-rate and oecology of gorgonians. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Pub. 182: 79-99. (About Gorgonia flabellum and Plexaura flexuosa).

 

Clark M, O'Shea S, Tracey D and Glasby B (1999) 

New Zealand Region "Seamounts": Aspects of their biology, ecology and fisheries. NIWA. 107p.

Grigg, R.W. 1993. 

Precious coral fisheries of Hawaii and the US Pacific Islands. Marine Fisheries Review, 55:50-60.

Grigg, R.W. 1976. 

Fishery management of precious and stony corals in Hawaii. Sea Grant Tech. Rep., Univ. of Hawaii. 77-03. 48pp.

Grigg, R.W. 1974. 

Growth rings: annual periodicity in two gorgonian corals. Ecology, 55:876-881.

 

Grigg, R.W. 1972. 

Orientation and growth form of sea fans. Limnology and Oceanographjy, 14:185-192.

 

Hinman, J.W. 1973.

Studies of experimental harvesting and regrowth of Plexaura homomalla in Grand Cayman Waters. Reprint of the Offshore Technology Conference.

 

Jordan, E. and R Nugent. 1978.

Evaluación poblacionad de Plexaura homomalla en la costa Noreste de la Península de Yucatán. An. Inst. Cienc. Mar. Limnol. Univ. Nal. Auton. Mexico. 5: 189-200.

Lasker H.R. & Sanchez J.A.  

Allometry,Ontogeny and Astogeny of modular organisms. In: R.H. Hughes (ed.), Progress in Asexual Propagation and Reproductive Strategies. John Wiley (Oxford-IBH, India).

 

Mitchell, N.D., M.R. Dardeau and W.W. Schroeder. 1993.

Colony morphology, age structure and relative growth of two gorgonian corals, Leptogorgia hebes and Leptogorgia virgulata, from the northern Gulf of Mexico. Coral Reefs 12: 65-70.

Moreno, O., M. Merino y D.E. Jordan. 1982.

Estimacion de la edad de un organismo colonial Plexaura homomalla (Esper) (Octocorallia: Plexauridae). An. Inst. Ciencias del Mary Limnol. UNAM 9(1): 345-358.

 

West, J.M., C.D. Harvell and A.M. Walls. 1993.

Morphological plasticity in a gorgonian coral (Briareum asbestinum) over a depth cline. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 94: 61-69.

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Kiho Kim (kk60@cornell.edu)

recently published on growth rates of transplanted colony fragments in Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 1997, 215: 49-64

Don McAllister (mcall@superaje.com)

recently published an article on conservation of warm- and cold-water gorgonian in the last Sea Wind. It includes an isoptope dating of a Primnoa reseda from between Georges and Browns banks off southern Nova Scotia of 500 years. Copies of this issue are $6.25 + $1 postage from Ocean Voice Interntional, Box 37026, 3332 McCarthy Rd., Ottawa, ON K1V 0W0, Canada. For more details see home page: www.ovi.ca.

In addition the Ecology Action Centre of Nova Scotia has published considerable information on the occurrence of gorgonians from the edge of the shelf, in that province: Distribution and status of deep sea corals off Nova Scotia by Heather Breeze, 58 pp. Its availabe from EAC for $10 + $3.50 shipping. You can e-mail them for more details at: eac_hfx@istar.ca.

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