Southeast Florida Reef Tract Water Quality Monitoring Plan

Whitall, David R.; Bricker, Suzanne B. (Suzanne Boyd); Stamates, S. Jack (Speridon Jack); Gregg, Kurtis L.; Baez, Jennifer; Cox, David; Barry, Barrett; Beal, Jeff; Blair, Steve; Carter, Kevin; Craig, Nancy J. (Nancy Jo), 1953-; Fauth, John; Fitzpatrick, Kathleen; O'Donnell, Kevin; Voss, Joshua, 1978-; Waters, Lauren; Wellendorf, Nia; Whiting, Dave; Wolfe, Lauri

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Southeast Florida Reef Tract Water Quality Monitoring Plan

2016
By Whitall, David R. ; Bricker, Suzanne B. (Suzanne Boyd) ; Stamates, S. Jack (Speridon Jack) ; ...

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Whitall, David R. ; Bricker, Suzanne B. (Suzanne Boyd) ; Stamates, S. Jack (Speridon Jack) ; Gregg, Kurtis L. ; Baez, Jennifer ; Cox, David ; Barry, Barrett ; Beal, Jeff ; Blair, Steve ; Carter, Kevin ; Craig, Nancy J. (Nancy Jo), 1953- ; Fauth, John ; Fitzpatrick, Kathleen ; O'Donnell, Kevin ; Voss, Joshua, 1978- ; Waters, Lauren ; Wellendorf, Nia ; Whiting, Dave ; Wolfe, Lauri
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United States, National Ocean Service ; United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ; Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.) ; Florida, Department of Environmental Protection
NOAA Program & Office:

NOS (National Ocean Service) ; CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
Description:

"Water quality problems, including sedimentation and over enrichment of nutrients, have the potential to adversely impact coral reef ecosystems. Coral reefs evolved in oligotrophic waters, but over the past century have been subjected to increasing levels of nutrients due to human activities. Excess nutrient loads can cause increases in macroalgal growth and can have deleterious effects on corals, such as macroalgae outcompeting and overgrowing corals (D'Angelo and Wiedenmann 2014). Furthermore, nitrogen and phosphorus can impact corals directly by lowering fertilization success (Harrison and Ward, 2001), and reducing both photosynthesis and calcification rates (Marubini and Davis, 1996). However, threshold values, above which coral impacts are likely, have not been well established. As more research on threshold values becomes available, it is important that method detection limits are sufficiently low to capture ecologically relevant levels"--Page 2.
Keywords:

Coral Reef Conservation Coral Reefs And Islands Corals Effect Of Water Quality On Health Measurement Monitoring Water Quality Coral Reef Conservation Coral Reefs And Islands Effect Of Water Quality On Water Quality
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Miscellaneous
Funding:

Project no. 30005
Place as Subject:

Florida
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Public Domain
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