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Cross-Shelf And Latitudinal Benthic Community Investigation In The Nearshore Habitats Of The Northern Florida Reef Tract, Katelyn Klug
Cross-Shelf And Latitudinal Benthic Community Investigation In The Nearshore Habitats Of The Northern Florida Reef Tract, Katelyn Klug
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The Florida Reef Tract (FRT) extends from the tropical Caribbean northward along the Florida coast into a warm temperate environment where tropical reef communities diminish with increasing latitude. This study was designed to map the nearshore benthic habitats including coral reefs and evaluate how the benthic communities differ between habitats and along the coast.
Benthic communities across the northern FRT from Key Biscayne to Hillsboro Inlet (25.5°-26.3° N) were digitized from aerial photography taken in 2013 at a 1:1,000 scale. Three main hard-bottom habitat types were identified that ran parallel to shore and consecutively further away from shore: Colonized Pavement, …