Description
Climate change threatens even the best-protected and most remote reefs. Reef recovery following catastrophic disturbance usually requires disturbed sites be reseeded from upstream reefs. Recent research (McClanahan et al., 2012) assessed connectivity as an important resilience factor, which although difficult to measure, is a high priority for management of coral reef ecosystems. The products discussed herein identify reefs that act as âsourcesâ and/or âsinksâ along the Florida Reef Tract to inform reef management strategies. Tools developed provide information on connectivity among reefs, thereby advancing the capacity for reef connectivity assessment.
Resources
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| Web Resource | Unknown | index.php | Open resource |
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Tags
- 914
- atlantic ocean
- biological oceanography
- biosphere
- climate change resilience tools for coral reef managers - connectivity
- coastal processes
- coral reefs
- coral reef watch
- corals
- coris
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- florida
- florida reef tract
- florida reef tract (26n080w0007)
- gulf of mexico
- hybrid ocean coordinate model (hycom)
- larval connectivity
- larval dispersal
- marine ecosystem
- noaa
- north atlantic ocean
- numeric data sets
- ocean
- ocean basin
- ocean circulation
- ocean currents
- oceanography
- oceans
- past
- physical oceanography
- reef monitoring and assessment
- regional
- reproduction
- sexual reproduction
- united states of america
- western hemisphere
- zoology