Beautiful coral gardens, dominated by the bubblegum coral <em>Paragorgia arborea</em>, were observed in Heezen Canyon (left) in U.S waters and Corsair Canyon on the Canadian side of the border. Large aggregations, especially of such large-sized (greater than one meter) colonies, of bubblegum coral in both canyons were amazing findings of this earlier (2014) expedition. Observations such as these contribute to our understanding of distributions and abundances of species, as well as providing clues to the level of population connectivity of organisms among canyons.
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Image courtesy of the 2014 Bigelow-ROPOS US-Canada Gulf of Maine Collaboration. Download larger version (jpg, 540 KB).
Beautiful coral gardens, dominated by the bubblegum coral Paragorgia arborea, were observed in Heezen Canyon (left) in U.S waters and Corsair Canyon on the Canadian side of the border. Large aggregations, especially of such large-sized (greater than one meter) colonies, of bubblegum coral in both canyons were amazing findings of this earlier (2014) expedition. Observations such as these contribute to our understanding of distributions and abundances of species, and also provide clues to the level of population connectivity of organisms among canyons.
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