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Southeast Florida Reef Tract Water Quality Assessment

2019
NOAA technical memorandum NOS NCCOS ...
Whitall, David, Bricker, Suzanne, Cox, David   +2 more
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Florida Current meandering and evolution of cyclonic eddies along the Florida Keys Reef Tract: Are they interconnected?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2012
The Florida Current (FC) is the branch of the Gulf Stream system within the Straits of Florida, connected to the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico. Cyclonic, cold‐core eddies travel along this oceanic current system, entering the Straits of Florida in the vicinity of the Dry Tortugas and evolving along the Florida Keys island chain and coral reefs ...
Vassiliki H. Kourafalou, HeeSook Kang
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Spur and Groove Formation on the Florida Reef Tract

SEPM Journal of Sedimentary Research, 1963
ABSTRACT On two Florida reefs, submarine reef spurs 10-12 feet high and up to 50 feet wide were dissected with explosives so that internal structures could be examined. Millepora and alga-coated spurs were found to be composed mainly of in-situ coral (Acropora palmata). Comparison of living A.
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The Development of Rodriguez Bank, a Holocene Mudbank in the Florida Reef Tract

SEPM Journal of Sedimentary Research, 1976
ABSTRACT Rodriguez Bank is a Recent mound of unconsolidated calcareous sediments deposited during a relative rise in sea level in the absence of vigorous wave action. This mound, unlike modern coral-algal reefs, has no rigid organic framework and plants are directly and indirectly responsible for the accumulation. The principal sediment contributors to
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Dispersal capacity and genetic relatedness in Acropora cervicornis on the Florida Reef Tract

Coral Reefs, 2018
Sexual reproduction in scleractinian corals is a critical component of species recovery, fostering population connectivity and enhancing genetic diveristy. The relative contribution of sexual reproduction to both connectivity and diversity in Acropora cervicornis may be variable due to this species’ capacity to reproduce effectively by fragmentation ...
Crawford Drury, Claire B. Paris, Vassiliki H. Kourafalou, Diego Lirman   +3 more
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Airborne lidar sensing of massive stony coral colonies on patch reefs in the northern Florida reef tract

Remote Sensing of Environment, 2006
In this study we examined the ability of the NASA Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) to discriminate cluster zones of massive stony coral colonies on northern Florida reef tract (NFRT) patch reefs based on their topographic complexity (rugosity). Spatially dense EAARL laser submarine topographic soundings acquired in August 2002 were
John C. Brock, C. Wayne Wright, Ilsa B. Kuffner, Raquel Hernandez, Philip Thompson   +4 more
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Accretion history of mid-Holocene coral reefs from the southeast Florida continental reef tract, USA

Coral Reefs, 2014
Sixteen new coral reef cores were collected to better understand the accretion history and composition of submerged relict reefs offshore of continental southeast (SE) Florida. Coral radiometric ages from three sites on the shallow inner reef indicate accretion initiated by 8,050 Cal BP and terminated by 5,640 Cal BP.
Stathakopoulos, Anastasios, Riegl, Bernhard   +1 more
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Ocean acidification enhances the bioerosion of a common coral reef sponge: implications for the persistence of the Florida Reef Tract

Bulletin of Marine Science, 2015
The increase in anthropogenic carbon dioxide in seawater, termed ocean acidification (OA), depresses calcification rates of coral and algae, and may contribute toward reef ecosystem degradation. To test how future OA conditions will influence biologically-mediated dissolution (bioerosion) of coral by the common Caribbean boring sponge Pione lampa (de ...
Ian C Enochs, Derek P Manzello, Renee D Carlton, Danielle M Graham, Rob Ruzicka, Michael A Colella   +5 more
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A New Holocene Sea Level Curve for Upper Florida Keys and Florida Reef Tract: ABSTRACT

AAPG Bulletin, 1984
A new Holocene sea level curve for the upper Florida Keys and Florida reef tract has been constructed by integrating existing and new data from 14C age analyses. New data are derived from 21 mangrove peat samples from 5 locations and 3 laminated CaCO3 soilstone crust (caliche) samples from 3 locations.
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Scale-dependent spatial variability of coral assemblages along the Florida Reef Tract

Coral Reefs, 1999
Coral reef communities of the western Atlantic have changed over the past two to three decades, but the magnitude and causes of this change remain controversial. Part of the problem is that small-scale patterns observed on individual reefs have been erroneously extrapolated to landscape and geographic scales.
T. J. T. Murdoch, R. B. Aronson
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