Carbonate budgets estimate the net rate of calcium carbonate production occurring on a reef as a result of the physical, chemical, and biological processes that add (e.g., calcification by corals and crustose coralline algae) or remove (e.g., corallivory ...

The coral reef ecosystems of Culebra are some of the more pristine habitats within the northeastern Caribbean marine biodiversity (Hernández-Delgado et al., 2000). However, long-term monitoring has shown an alarming 5-11% annual decline in coral cover in ...