Determining the extent and characterizing coral reef habitats of the northern latitudes of the Florida Reef Tract (Martin County). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Climate change has recently been implicated in poleward shifts of many tropical species including corals; thus attention focused on higher-latitude coral communities is warranted to investigate possible range expansions and ecosystem shifts due to global
Brian K Walker, David S Gilliam
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Composition of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Microbial Communities in Waters around the Florida Reef Tract [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2021 The Florida Keys, a delicate archipelago of sub-tropical islands extending from the south-eastern tip of Florida, host the vast majority of the only coral barrier reef in the continental United States.
Peeter Laas +5 more
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Niche space of corals along the Florida reef tract. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 Over the last three decades corals have declined precipitously in the Florida Keys. Their population decline has prompted restoration effort. Yet, little effort has been invested in understanding the contemporary niche spaces of coral species, which ...
Robert van Woesik +4 more
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Ocean acidification refugia of the Florida Reef Tract. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Ocean acidification (OA) is expected to reduce the calcification rates of marine organisms, yet we have little understanding of how OA will manifest within dynamic, real-world systems.
Derek P Manzello +4 more
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Microbial Community Shifts Associated With the Ongoing Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Outbreak on the Florida Reef Tract [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 As many as 22 of the 45 coral species on the Florida Reef Tract are currently affected by stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). The ongoing disease outbreak was first observed in 2014 in Southeast Florida near Miami and as of early 2019 has been ...
Julie L. Meyer +6 more
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A revised Holocene coral sea-level database from the Florida reef tract, USA [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 The coral reefs and mangrove habitats of the south Florida region have long been used in sea-level studies for the western Atlantic because of their broad geographic extent and composition of sea-level tracking biota.
Anastasios Stathakopoulos +2 more
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Low net carbonate accretion characterizes Florida’s coral reef [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Coral reef habitat is created when calcium carbonate production by calcifiers exceeds removal by physical and biological erosion. Carbonate budget surveys provide a means of quantifying the framework-altering actions of diverse assemblages of marine ...
John T. Morris +9 more
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Severe 2010 cold-water event caused unprecedented mortality to corals of the Florida reef tract and reversed previous survivorship patterns. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 BACKGROUND: Coral reefs are facing increasing pressure from natural and anthropogenic stressors that have already caused significant worldwide declines.
Diego Lirman +22 more
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Enhancing reef carbonate budgets through coral restoration [PDF]
Scientific ReportsComplex reef structure, built via calcium carbonate production by stony corals and other calcifying taxa, supports key ecosystem services. However, the decline in coral cover on reefs of the Florida Reef Tract (US), caused by ocean warming, disease, and ...
Emily Esplandiu +4 more
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Environmental Drivers of Genetic Divergence in Two Corals From the Florida Keys [PDF]
Evolutionary ApplicationsIncreasingly frequent marine heatwaves devastate coral reefs around the world, so there is great interest in finding warm‐adapted coral populations that could be used as sources for assisted gene flow and restoration.
Kristina L. Black +2 more
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