Two Shelf-Edge Marine Protected Areas in the eastern Gulf of Mexico
"The Madison-Swanson Marine Protected Area is located off the Florida coast in the Gulf of Mexico at the margin of the continental shelf and slope in 60 to 140 m of water. Prominent within Madison-Swanson is a limestone ridge, thought to be the remnant of...
Geologic setting and ecological functioning of coral reefs in American Samoa
"American Samoa is rich in coral reefs and all islands are more or less fringed by coral reefs. Although structurally not part of the Samoan chain, political American Samoa includes Rose Atoll, a true atoll, and Swains Island. The coral reefs of American ...
Threats and stressors to U.S. coral reef ecosystems
"Shallow-water coral reef ecosystems experience a wide range ofr physical, biological, and chemical threats and stressors, which stem from both anthropogenic and natural causes. Threats are defined as environmental trends with potentially negative impacts...
Future Scenarios: A review of modelling efforts to predict the future of coral reefs in an era of climate change
"This chapter reviews recent efforts to predict the effect of future climate change on coral reefs, focusing on coral bleaching. The chapter includes and introduction to climate modeling, a review of the application of climate models to coal bleaching, a ...
"The PAGES Data Guide highlighted three main components with important roles in data management: (1) Scientists, who generate, publish and contribute the paleoclimatic data, (2) Data cooperatives, project-level data management, thematic and regional archi...
Climate variability and change: Monitoring data and evidence for increased coral bleaching stress
"Coral reefs live within a fairly narrow envelope of environmental conditions constrained by water temperatures, light, salinity, nutrients, bathymetry and the aragonite saturation state of seawater. While the natural environment can be highly variable an...
Two Shelf-Edge Marine Protected Areas in the eastern Gulf of Mexico