Dataset: Acropora cervicornis population data during bleaching events from shoreside Florida_Coral_Reefs Coral_Bleaching_FRRP in the Florida Reef Tract from 2014-2015 (EMUCoReS project)

ValidatedFinal no updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.640238.1Version 1 (2016-03-11)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Principal Investigator: Dr Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty (Florida International University)

Co-Principal Investigator, Contact: Dr Diego Lirman (University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science)

Co-Principal Investigator: Dr Laurie Richardson (Florida International University)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Ms Dicky Allison (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: RAPID: A hyper-thermal anomaly in the Florida Reef Tract: An opportunity to explore the mechanisms underpinning patterns of coral bleaching and disease (EMUCoReS)


Abstract

Regional Acropora cervicornis size, mortality, and health condition data during summer bleaching events in 2014 and 2015.

Colonies of Acropora cervicornis were surveyed for annual Florida Reef Resilience Program (FRRP) Disturbance Response Monitoring during the summers of 2014 and 2015. At each site, two independent 1x10m belt transects were randomly placed and indicators were then recorded for all stony corals greater than 4cm including: 1) hard coral size (maximum height and diameter) and 2) hard coral condition as determined by the presence of bleaching and paling, presence of disease, and percent recent or old morality. 

A full description of the FRRP program is available at their website: www.frrp.org.

Description of this ongoing study: Coral Bleaching Response Plan (dmoserv3.bco-dmo.org/data_docs/EMUCoReS/Coral-Bleaching-Response-Plan-6.pdf).


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