Miller, Steven L. (Steven Lewis)

2007 Quick Look Report [electronic resource] : large-scale assessment of Acropora corals, coral species richness, urchins and Coralliophila snails in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and Biscayne National Park / Steven L. Miller, Mark Chiappone and Leanne M. Rutten.

Key Largo, Fla. : University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Center for Marine Science, 2007.

Electronic text document (147 p.) : PDF file, col. ill., maps ; 5.36 MB.

Title from title screen (viewed on Oct. 26, 2009).

NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, Coral Reef Rapid Assessments, Monitoring, and Modeling in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Project ID: 1922-07. Principal Investigator: Brian Keller.

"December 2007."

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Internet browser; Adobe Acrobat Reader.

"The declines in abundance of two of the principal Caribbean reef-building corals , staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) and elkhorn coral (A. palmata ) (Figure 1), are often-cited examples of the changes in western Atlantic reefs that have occurred during the past several decades. The causes of these declines, which began in the late 1970s, include large-scale factors such as coral bleaching and disease, especially white band disease, as well as smaller scale effects from storms and predation by corallivorous snails and damselfishes. Both coral species were under consideration for addition to the U.S. Endangered Species List since the early 1990s and were formally added to the list as threatened in 2005 based upon Caribbean-wide population declines and poor recovery. The reader is referred to the Acropora Biological Review Team summary at http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdf/050303%20status%20review.pdf for further information"--Summary.

Corals Florida Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

Corals Florida Biscayne National Park.

Coral reef conservation Florida Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

Coral reef conservation Florida Biscayne National Park.

Coral reef ecology Florida Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

Coral reef ecology Florida Biscayne National Park.

Corals Habitat Florida Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

Corals Habitat Florida Biscayne National Park.

Marine parks and reserves Florida.

University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Center for Marine Science Research.

Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)