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Fine-Scale Coral Connectivity Pathways In The Florida Reef Tract: Implications For Conservation And Restoration, Charles Frys, Antoine Saint-Amand, Matthieu Le Henaff, Joana Figueiredo, Alyson Kuba, Brian K. Walker, Jonathan Lambrechts, Valentin Vallaeys, David Vincent, Emmanuel Hanert
Fine-Scale Coral Connectivity Pathways In The Florida Reef Tract: Implications For Conservation And Restoration, Charles Frys, Antoine Saint-Amand, Matthieu Le Henaff, Joana Figueiredo, Alyson Kuba, Brian K. Walker, Jonathan Lambrechts, Valentin Vallaeys, David Vincent, Emmanuel Hanert
Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Connectivity between coral reefs is critical to ensure their resilience and persistence against disturbances. It is driven by ocean currents, which often have very complex patterns within reef systems. Only biophysical models that simulate both the fine-scale details of ocean currents and the life-history traits of larvae transported by these currents can help to estimate connectivity in large reef systems. Here we use the unstructured-mesh coastal ocean model SLIM that locally achieves a spatial resolution of ~100 m, 10 times finer than existing models, over the entire Florida Reef Tract (FRT). It allows us to simulate larval dispersal between the …
A Revised Holocene Coral Sea-Level Database From The Florida Reef Tract, Usa, Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Bernhard Riegl, Lauren T. Toth
A Revised Holocene Coral Sea-Level Database From The Florida Reef Tract, Usa, Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Bernhard Riegl, Lauren T. Toth
Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
The coral reefs and mangrove habitats of the south Florida region have long been used in sea-level studies for the western Atlantic because of their broad geographic extent and composition of sea-level tracking biota. The data from this region have been used to support several very different Holocene sea-level reconstructions (SLRs) over the years. However, many of these SLRs did not incorporate all available coral-based data, in part because detailed characterizations necessary for inclusion into sea-level databases were lacking. Here, we present an updated database comprised of 303 coral samples from published sources that we extensively characterized for the first …