Environmental variability in the Florida Keys: Impacts on coral reef health

I examined the hypothesis that high variability in Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and ocean color are associated with higher coral cover and slower rates of decline of coral cover within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS). Synoptic SST time series maps, covering the period 1994-2005,...

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Main Author: Soto, Inia M
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2006
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2709
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3708&context=etd