Comparative analysis of the functioning of disturbed and undisturbed coral reef and seagrass ecosystems in the Tortugas : Phase I - Establishing a baseline

Fonseca, Mark S.

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Comparative analysis of the functioning of disturbed and undisturbed coral reef and seagrass ecosystems in the Tortugas : Phase I - Establishing a baseline

2000
By Fonseca, Mark S.

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Alternative Title:

Progress Report no. 2, October 1, 2000
Personal Author:

Fonseca, Mark S.
Corporate Authors:

Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (U.S.)
NOAA Program & Office:

NOS (National Ocean Service) ; NCCOS (National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science) ; CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
Description:

This report describes progess made on five tasks: 1) Conducting a preliminary investigation into the technical and logistic difficulties in preparing a numerically accurate and spatially precise characterization and inventory of the fish and benthic communities of the Tortugas South reserve component; 2) Characterizing the mutton snapper spawning aggregations on Riley's Hump; 3) Characterizing the deepwater seagrass and other non-reef benthic communities and its contribution to sustaining fishery resources in the proposed ecological reserve and comparing this contribution to a disturbed site; 4) Initiating a comparative analysis of the delineation of habitats based on depth; and 5) Examine how well ecological data collected at high resolution can be scaled to the larger spatial extent of a given habitat type within the proposed ecological reserve.
Keywords:

Benthos Biotic Communities Coral Reef Ecology Environmental Conditions Ferrel (Ship) Maps Planning Research Restoration Ecology Seagrasses Biotic Communities Coral Reef Ecology Environmental Conditions Restoration Ecology
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PDF
Document Type:

Cruise Report
Place as Subject:

Dry Tortugas (Fla.)
License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Rights Information:

CC0 Public Domain
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Library
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urn:sha256:f69ac8e597dd7063fadd61f8cfe94d14fd799a936cb0080c829b2a424519d400
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https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/49974/noaa_49974_DS1.pdf
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