Biometric traits of Lophelia pertusa corallites across a broad Atlantic and Mediterranean range

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Vegetative and morphometric corallite traits were quantified on skeletal samples of the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa. The aim was to characterize the morphological diversity of this species at the level of corallites. Morphometric measurements were taken with caliper and tape measure in two replicates, in order to be averaged to reduce measurement error. The analyzed skeletal samples had been collected from various locations in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea during multiple cruises, and are kept at the Senckenberg am Meer (SaM) institute in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

Individual corallites are identified in the data table by the number of their generation (starting from 1, i.e. the oldest generation in the sample). Different corallites of the same generation cohort are distinguished by letters, which are cumulative (i.e. inherited from parent generations) to allow distinction of different branches. Non-reproductive corallites (i.e. with number of buds = 0) are not measured, to limit the effect of ontogenetic variation.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932987
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3802
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.932987
Provenance
Creator Sanna, Giovanni ORCID logo; Freiwald, André
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 11807 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-87.209W, -9.822S, 18.452E, 64.088N); Franken Mound; Belgica Mounds; Campeche Bank; West Florida Slope; Southwest Florida; Great Bahama (Mound A); Eastern South Atlantic; Sula reef; Porcupine Seabight; Santa Maria di Leuca
Temporal Coverage Begin 1994-09-26T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-01-24T10:41:00Z