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The State of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States and Pacific ...
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The 2008 State of Coral Reef Ecosystems report includes contributions from over 230 respected coral reef scientists and managers. For each of the 15 ...
Home - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Welcome to the CDHCThe Coral Health and Disease Consortium is a collective of scientists focused on preserving and protecting coral reef ...
Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD)
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Stony coral tissue loss disease lesions appear as distinct and rapidly expanding focal, multi-focal, or coalescing areas of denuded (bare) skeleton ...
National Coral Reef Institute (NCRI) - NCCOS - NCCOS Coastal Science ...
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Researchers at the National Coral Reef Institute (NCRI) are exploring scientifically sound approaches to understand, assess, monitor, restore and ...
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science - NCCOS
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Shallow Water Corals Coral reefs are living, three-dimensional, underwater structures that provide habitat to algae, fish, crustaceans, and other ...
Coral Disease - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Coral Disease – History and General Information History Coral disease was first recognized as a threat to Caribbean reefs in 1972 when Antonius ...
[PDF] Coral Reef Restora on Monitoring Guide - National Oceanic and ...
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Coral Reef Restora on Monitoring Guide Methods to evaluate restora on success from local to ecosystem scales Goal-Based Performance Metrics are ...
Coral reef restoration monitoring guide: Methods to evaluate ...
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This Guide should be used to measure and describe the progress of coral restoration projects towards meeting restoration goals. The CRC Monitoring ...
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program Implementation: Biological and ...
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The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) is a framework for conducting sustained observations of biological, climate, and socioeconomic ...
Field Guides - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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The CDHC is a network of scientists, managers, and agency representatives devoted to understanding coral health and disease.
White Band Disease - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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White Band Disease (WBD) is a common tissue loss disease that affects the two Caribbean acroporid species Acropora cervicornis and Acropora palmata ...
Benthic Habitat Mapping of Florida Coral Reef Ecosystems to Support ...
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The shallow-water coral reef ecosystem of southern Florida is important for several reasons. The coral reef ecosystem, which extends 170 miles (275 ...
Dark Spot Disease - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Dark spot disease (DSD) is a non-lethal coral disease that is characterized by lesions of purple or brown discoloration. Dark spot disease is known to ...
Coral Assessment and Restoration Results Released for U.S. Caribbean ...
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Coral reefs buffer coastlines from erosion and inundation by reducing wave energy and wave height, reducing risk to people and infrastructure from ...
A Guide to Large-Area Imaging for Coral Reef Monitoring, Research and ...
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For coral reef restoration and environmental monitoring, scientists often require time series or high resolution data that are difficult to extract ...
Coral Polyp Anatomy - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Coral Polyp Anatomy Corals, often mistaken for plants due to their flower-like appearance, are animals that generally exist in the form of colonies ...
Characterized Diseases - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Characterized Diseases White Band Disease White Band Disease (WBD) is a common tissue loss disease that affects the two Caribbean acroporid species ...
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of coral reef fish ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/national-coral-reef-monitoring-program-assessment-of-coral-reef-fish-communities-in-the-florida-reef-tract/
Coral reef fish survey data provided in this collection are from three (3) distinct regions along the Florida reef tract; 1) Dry Tortugas, 2) Florida ...
Benthic Habitat Mapping of Coral Reefs in Florida, Caribbean, and the ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/benthic-habitat-mapping-coral-reefs-florida-caribbean-pacific/
Coral reef ecosystems are enormously valuable culturally, ecologically, and economically, but they are declining because of human influences. Our ...
Understanding the Impact of Sea Level Rise on Coral Reef and Mangrove ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/understanding-the-impact-of-sea-level-rise-on-coral-reef-and-mangrove-interactions-and-the-resulting-coastal-flooding-hazards-to-inform-nature-based-features/
The tropics are dominated by thousands of coral reef–lined islands with shoreline mangrove forests that are expected to experience disproportionately ...