Initial explorations of the first cold-water coral reef in Galapagos Islands, on Cacho de coral seamount.

Marcayata-Vaca, Esther

Initial explorations of the first cold-water coral reef in Galapagos Islands, on Cacho de coral seamount.

Esther Marcayata-Vaca^1,2, Michelle Taylor^3,4, Stuart Banks⁵ and Katleen Robert¹, (1)Memorial University of Newfoundland, Fisheries and Marine Institute, St John's, NF, Canada, (2)Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Ecuador, (3)Ocean Census, Head of Science, Oxford, United Kingdom, (4)University of Essex, Senior Lecturer, Essex, United Kingdom, (5)Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands (CDF), Puerto Ayora, Ecuador