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Vitality of reef coral populations off Key Largo, Florida: Recruitment and mortality
| Title: | Vitality of reef coral populations off Key Largo, Florida: Recruitment and mortality. |
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| Name(s): |
Dustan, Phillip, creator Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 1977 | |
| Publisher: | Springer-Verlag | |
| Extent: | 9 p. | |
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| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | 3176691 (digitool), FADT3176691 (IID), fau:5848 (fedora), 10.1007/BF02430665 (doi) | |
| Note(s): |
Recently, questions about the health of the coral reefs of the Florida Keys have been raised. Estimates of net recruitment and mortality of reef corals on Carysfort Reef, Key Largo, Florida, suggest that these populations declined over the 14 month interval studied. The greatest rate of change on Carysfort Reef, the most well developed reef in the northern Keys, occurred in the zone of richest coverage by corals. Water pollution associated with the tremendous increase in the human population of South Florida in the last twenty years may be contributing to the reef's decline. This manuscript is an author version with the final publicationavailable at http://www.springerlink.com and may be cited as: Dustan, P. (1977). Vitality of reef coralpopulations off Key Largo, Florida: Recruitment and mortality. Environmental Geology, 2(1), 51-58. doi:10.1007/BF02430665 Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #69. |
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| Subject(s): |
Reefs Coral Coral reefs and islands--Florida |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3176691 | |
| Links: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02430665 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©1977 Springer-Verlag | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
