This data set of Excel files contain data from visual sampling of coral reef fish species in the National Marine Sanctuary along the Florida Keys. The dataset contains information about 5 classes of coral reefs, 216 fish species, and 6 benthic habitats. T...
Investigator's annual report: Reef fish visual census in Biscayne National Park FY2013
"While Biscayne National Park (BNP) Staff may have continued to collect data in BNP as part of their internal activities, NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) personnel did not collect data from BNP during the 2013 reporting period. The NOAA Na...
Abundance of commercially important reef fish indicates different levels of over-exploitation across shelves of the U.S. Virgin Islands
The United States Virgin Islands are comprised of two separate insular platforms separated by the deep water Anegada Passage. Although managed by the same regulations, as one fishery, several physical and spatial differences exist between the two northern...
Refinement of the Southern Florida Reef Tract Benthic Habitat Map With Habitat Use Patterns of Reef Fish Species
"The benthic habitat map for the southern Florida coral reef ecosystem provides the critical infrastructure for: (i) large-scale baseline ecosystem monitoring surveys of fishes, corals, and macroinvertebrates and their habitats; (ii) ecological understand...
Comparative Use of a Caribbean Mesophotic Coral Ecosystem and Association with Fish Spawning Aggregations by Three Species of Shark
Understanding of species interactions within mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs; ~ 30–150 m) lags well behind that for shallow coral reefs. MCEs are often sites of fish spawning aggregations (FSAs) for a variety of species, including many groupers. Such re...
Low net carbonate accretion characterizes Florida’s coral reef
Coral reef habitat is created when calcium carbonate production by calcifiers exceeds removal by physical and biological erosion. Carbonate budget surveys provide a means of quantifying the framework-altering actions of diverse assemblages of marine speci...
Characterization of deep water reef communities within the marine conservation district, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands final report
The purpose of this research was to validate habitat classifications developed for the CFMC and to assess fisheries and non-fisheries resources within this marine protected area. This research provides information that is applicable for the classification...
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program Biological monitoring summary U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico: 2019
NCRMP provides large-scale data that can be used in partnership with local jurisdictional monitoring to support coral reef management. This report summarizes data collected by the biological sampling of shallow water coral reefs in the USVI and Puerto Ric...
Florida Reef Fish Visual Census 1999 - Present
Investigator's annual report: Reef fish visual census in Biscayne National Park FY2013