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Cruise Report. Cuba's Twilight Zone Reefs: Remotely Operated Vehicle Surveys of Deep/Mesophotic Coral Reefs and Associated Fish Communities of Cuba

Title: Cruise Report. Cuba's Twilight Zone Reefs: Remotely Operated Vehicle Surveys of Deep/Mesophotic Coral Reefs and Associated Fish Communities of Cuba.
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Name(s): Reed, John K.
Farrington, Stephanie
Gonzalez-Diaz, Patricia
Lopez, Linnet Busutil
Martínez-Daranas, Beatriz
Cobián Rojas, Dorka
Voss, Joshua
Hanisak, M. Dennis
Diaz, Maria Cristina
Jiang, Mingshun
Studivan, Michael
David, Andrew
Drummond, Felicia
Mendez, Juliett Gonzalez
Garcia Rodriguez, Alain
González-Sanchez, Patricia M.
Fernández, Jorge Viamontes
Pérez, Daniel Estrada
Horn, Lance
White, Jason
Pomponi, Shirley A.
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Technical Report
Date Issued: 2017-10-31
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 510 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The purpose of this research cruise was to discover and characterize, for the first time, the extent of mesophotic reefs along the entire coastline of Cuba, and to compare the health and connectivity (physical, genetic and ecological) among both mesophotic and previously well-characterized shallow reef systems in Cuba, the southeastern United States, and Gulf of Mexico (in particular, the FGBNMS and FKNMS). Moreover, the project will directly address a recommendation in the Report from MarCuba (2015) in which the U.S. and Cuban participants in this project stated their intention to initiate an international collaboration.
Identifier: FAUIR000226 (IID)
Note(s): Joint Cuba- U.S. Expedition R/V F.G. Walton Smith NMSF Mohawk Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) May 14- June 13, 2017
Florida Atlantic University Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Technical Report Number 183
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000226
Host Institution: FAU