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Reef structure of the Florida Reef Tract for the period 2005-2020. [PDF]
Environ Monit Assess, 2023 Abstract Shallow-water coral reefs of the Florida Reef Tract compose the third largest reef in the world, but during the last several decades, scleractinian (stony) corals have suffered unprecedented declines from global and local stressors.
Fisher WS.
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Rapid Population Decline of the Pillar Coral Dendrogyra cylindrus Along the Florida Reef Tract [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Coral reefs worldwide are in a state of decline, but the population status and impacts of stressors for rare species are generally not well documented using broad-scale monitoring protocols.
Karen L. Neely +6 more
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Repeated Thermal Stress, Shading, and Directional Selection in the Florida Reef Tract [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017 Over the last three decades reef corals have been subjected to an unprecedented frequency and intensity of thermal-stress events, which have led to extensive coral bleaching, disease, and mortality.
Robert van Woesik, Kelly R. McCaffrey
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Coral Bleaching: The Equatorial-Refugia Hypothesis. [PDF]
Glob Chang BiolMarine heatwaves continue to pose a threat to coral reefs worldwide. However, refugia may help sustain coral populations. We used data from 30,000+ surveys worldwide, spanning from 2002 to 2020, to identify the environmental conditions that may characterize marine‐heatwave refugia.
Ferris Z +3 more
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Ranking 67 Florida Reefs for Survival of Acropora cervicornis Outplants
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Over the past three decades, coral populations have declined across the tropical and subtropical oceans because of thermal stress, coral diseases, and pollution.
Raymond B. Banister, Robert van Woesik
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Differences in Molecular Responses to a Thermally Variable Preconditioning Treatment for Two Caribbean Coral Species. [PDF]
Ecol EvolABSTRACT Coral reefs around the world are increasingly threatened by rising ocean temperatures, leading to more frequent mass bleaching events. However, some corals, typically found in more thermally variable environments, have demonstrated resilience to thermal stress.
DeMerlis A +18 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Outbreaks of coral disease have been a dominant force shaping western Atlantic coral-reef assemblages since the late 1970s. Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is nonetheless having an unprecedented impact in the region. Whereas numerous studies over
Lauren T. Toth +3 more
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Methodological recommendations for assessing scleractinian and octocoral recruitment to settlement tiles [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Quantifying recruitment of corals is important for evaluating their capacity to recover after disturbances through natural processes, yet measuring recruitment rates in situ is challenging due to the minute size of the study organism and the complexity ...
Leah M. Harper +5 more
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An Informational Guide to Common Stony Corals of Florida
EDIS, 2018 The following information is meant to be a guide to Scleractinian (stony) corals of Florida. All corals presented in this paper are in a protected status under Florida’s Coral Reef Protection Act and several of these species are federally protected ...
Joseph Henry +3 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Since the appearance of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) on reefs off Miami in 2014, this unprecedented outbreak has spread across the entirety of Florida’s coral reef tract, as well as to many territories throughout the Caribbean.
Graham Kolodziej +7 more
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