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Reef structure of the Florida Reef Tract for the period 2005–2020
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. A program to evaluate the effects of high-temperature bleaching eve...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10516784/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37737940 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10661-023-11819-0 |
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description | 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. A program to evaluate the effects of high-temperature bleaching events was initiated by The Nature Conservancy’s Florida Reef Resilience Program in 2005 and surveys have been completed across at least some portion of the entire region every year since. The program adopted a demographic (colony-based) assessment approach, which records colony species, size (height and maximum diameter), and estimated partial mortality (percent barren skeleton). Because reef structure is critical to ecosystem functioning and services, data from 2005 to 2020 were analyzed to describe the abundance, size, and morphological complexity of stony coral colonies forming the biogenic reef. Colony height, footprint, surface area, and volume summed for 6016 transects were used to describe reef structure and averages were used to characterize the components that contributed to the structure. Nearly 150,000 colonies representing 49 species were reported during this period and results demonstrated both spatial and temporal changes for the region and for geographic subregions. Some subregions showed increasing colony density, especially for three small, hemispheric species, and declining average colony size. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10661-023-11819-0. |
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spelling | pubmed-105167842023-09-24 Reef structure of the Florida Reef Tract for the period 2005–2020 Fisher, William S. Environ Monit Assess Research 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. A program to evaluate the effects of high-temperature bleaching events was initiated by The Nature Conservancy’s Florida Reef Resilience Program in 2005 and surveys have been completed across at least some portion of the entire region every year since. The program adopted a demographic (colony-based) assessment approach, which records colony species, size (height and maximum diameter), and estimated partial mortality (percent barren skeleton). Because reef structure is critical to ecosystem functioning and services, data from 2005 to 2020 were analyzed to describe the abundance, size, and morphological complexity of stony coral colonies forming the biogenic reef. Colony height, footprint, surface area, and volume summed for 6016 transects were used to describe reef structure and averages were used to characterize the components that contributed to the structure. Nearly 150,000 colonies representing 49 species were reported during this period and results demonstrated both spatial and temporal changes for the region and for geographic subregions. Some subregions showed increasing colony density, especially for three small, hemispheric species, and declining average colony size. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10661-023-11819-0. Springer International Publishing 2023-09-22 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10516784/ /pubmed/37737940 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10661-023-11819-0 Text en © This is a U.S. Government work and not under copyright protection in the US; foreign copyright protection may apply 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Fisher, William S. Reef structure of the Florida Reef Tract for the period 2005–2020 |
title | Reef structure of the Florida Reef Tract for the period 2005–2020 |
title_full | Reef structure of the Florida Reef Tract for the period 2005–2020 |
title_fullStr | Reef structure of the Florida Reef Tract for the period 2005–2020 |
title_full_unstemmed | Reef structure of the Florida Reef Tract for the period 2005–2020 |
title_short | Reef structure of the Florida Reef Tract for the period 2005–2020 |
title_sort | reef structure of the florida reef tract for the period 2005–2020 |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10516784/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37737940 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10661-023-11819-0 |
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