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An assessment of the capacity of coral reefs to grow fast enough to keep up with projected rises in sea level finds that most reefs will fall behind if nothing is done to restore them.
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Other Wildlife,
Sea-Level Rise and Coasts,
Southeast CASC,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Wildlife and Plants
Coral reefs are degrading on a global scale, and rates of reef-organism calcification are predicted to decline due to ocean warming and acidification. Systematic measurements of calcification over space and time are necessary to detect change resulting from environmental stressors. We established a network of calcification monitoring stations at four managed reefs along the outerFlorida Keys Reef Tract (FKRT) from Miami to the Dry Tortugas. Eighty colonies (in two sequential sets of 40) of the reef-building coral, Siderastrea siderea, were transplanted to fixed apparatus that allowed repetitive detachment for buoyant weighing every 6 months. Algal-recruitment tiles were also deployed during each weighing interval...
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Buoyant weight,
CCA,
Climate Change,
Coral growth,
Other Wildlife,
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