Website

Region(s)

SE

Summary

Data collected January-June 2018 ~every 2 weeks at 4 sites located off of the Middle Keys, each with two replicate monitoring plots (ranging from 5 x 5m to 10 x 10m); data collected monthly since August 2018.

Parameters

Coral species (>10cm), Coral location, Size (L, W, H), # Tissue isolates, Old mortality (% affected), Recent mortality (% affected), Disease (% affected), Bleaching status

Notes

Application

These data provide information about the coral disease outbreak’s spatial progression along the reef tract, as well as small scale spatial epidemiology (within colony disease progression rates; inter- and intra-specific disease transmission rates).

Publications

Start

2018

End

2020

Frequency

Monthly

Method

1 m belt transects across monitoring plots ranging from 5m x 5m to 10m x 10m. In total there are 8 monitoring plots (2 replicates at each of 4 sites).

Discontinuity

Data Location

By Request

Data Format

Habitats

Coral/Coral Reef

SEACAR Citation

Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection (RCP), Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS); Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). (2018). Coral Disease Monitoring Sentinel Sites. Updated 12/14/2023. Distributed by: SEACAR Data Discovery Interface, Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. https://data.florida-seacar.org/programs/details/5040

Alternative Citation

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