Website

http://www.sefsc.noaa.gov/species/corals/acropora.htm

Region(s)

SE

Summary

Coral distribution

Parameters

Elkhorn coral counts, size, recruitment, mortality, condition assessments, disease, percent live

Notes

This is an on-going monitoring project with thrice yearly surveys in the upper Florida Keys and annual surveys in Curaçao and only episodic surveys in Navassa (2006, 2009, 2012). Study units are 150 m2 plots in which all attached Acropora palmata colonies are mapped and surveyed each year. In Florida, individually tagged A. palmata colonies are surveyed more frequently to document their condition.

Application

To collect basic elkhorn coral population data so that changes to the population can be documented and a future trajectory can be estimated.

Publications

Reports, publications

Start

2004

End

Current

Frequency

Annual

Method

permanent study plots, underwater mapping

Discontinuity

Fifteen plots have data beginning in 2004, the other 10 have data beginning in 2010

Data Location

https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.nodc:0142175 Updates available upon request

Data Format

database, images
Access

Habitats

Coral/Coral Reef

Recommended Citation

Cite as: Williams, Dana E.; Miller, Margaret W. (2016). Elkhorn coral demographic monitoring from 2004-03-30 to 2018-12-04 (NCEI Accession 0142175). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0142175. Accessed [date].

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