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

Published Date:

2016

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Personal Authors:

Whitall, David R. ; Bricker, Suzanne B. (Suzanne Boyd) ; Stamates, S. Jack (Speridon Jack) ; Gregg, Kurtis L. ; Baez, Jennifer ; ... More ▼

Corporate Authors:

Florida, Department of Environmental Protection, ; United States, National Ocean Service, ;

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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.

Document Type:

Professional Paper

Collection(s):

National Ocean Service (NOS)
Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP)

Funding:

Funding: NOAA, NOS,; project number: 30005;

Place as Subject:

Florida

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