Reducing LBSP threats in USVI's St Croix East End Marine Park
The St. Croix East End Marine Park (STXEEMP) is over 60 square miles and contains a variety of important habitat types including linear and patch coral reefs, seagrass beds, and mangroves. St. Croix reefs are dominated by elkhorn and staghorn corals, and ...
Elucidating the recipe for coral reef resilience in the Florida Keys
Coral reefs along the Florida Keys portion of the Florida Reef Tract (FRT) have undergone a dramatic decline since the 1980s. Since the 1997-98 El Niño event, coral cover on offshore reefs of the FRT has been = 5% and continued to decline. Mortality of th...
Coral Reef Watch: Satellite- and Model-Based Products for Coral Reef Ecosystem Managers
Climate change has become the greatest single threat to coral reefs globally. First documented in the early 1980s, mass coral bleaching has become one of climate change's most visible marine ecological impacts. Coral bleaching has become more extensive, f...