Mesophotic and Deep Sea Corals in the Gulf of Mexico – Impacts from Deepwater Horizon: Bibliography

NOAA’s Office of Habitat Protection (OHP) in the National Marine Fisheries Service is participating in an Open Ocean Trustee Implementation Group studying marine life in the Gulf of Mexico and the impact of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill on that life. The NOAA Central Library was consulted to create this annotated bibliography to provide OHP with literature on the mesophotic and deep sea corals in the Gulf of Mexico. In particular this bibliography covers the impacts of the DWH oil spill, mapping and restoration techniques for those coral communities. The literature presented here is intended to cover the most recent research in these areas, and also covers the status of the mesophotic and deep sea corals in the Gulf of Mexico prior to the DWH oil spill. The literature on the mapping and restoration techniques is from all over the world, not just the Gulf of Mexico. Additionally, all research presented here is from primarily the last ten years, though some – especially that of Section II – is from the last twenty years.