Download or read book A Cooperative Multi agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral Reef Ecosystem written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This document provides the background behind and descriptions of the protocols developed for a collaborative, multi-agency effort to monitor reef fish populations in the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas. Agencies involved include the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Southeast Fisheries Science Center (NOAA Fisheries), Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI), the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (UM-RSMAS), and the National Park Service (NPS). This collaborative effort is the culmination of nearly three decades of independent Florida Keys monitoring programs aimed at fish populations in the region"--Executive summary.

Download or read book A Cooperative Multi agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral Reef Ecosystem written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This document provides the background behind and descriptions of the protocols developed for a collaborative, multi-agency effort to monitor reef fish populations in the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas. Agencies involved include the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Southeast Fisheries Science Center (NOAA Fisheries), Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI), the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (UM-RSMAS), and the National Park Service (NPS). This collaborative effort is the culmination of nearly three decades of independent Florida Keys monitoring programs aimed at fish populations in the region"--Executive summary.

Download or read book A Cooperative Multi Agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral Reef Ecosystem written by National Park Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-03 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reef fish populations are conspicuous and essential components of coral reef ecosystems in the south Florida region. Recent precipitous declines in these populations are believed to be due to severe habitat degradation as well as significant increases in recreational and commercial fishing. The monitoring methodologies described in this document are necessary for understanding how natural and man-made stressors are changing reef fish populations and communities. These stressors will continue to increase, and understanding the responses of populations and communities will be critical for their sustainable management.

Download or read book The Opportunities and Challenges in Development of a Mult agency Program to Monitor and Access Reef Fish Populations in Florida Keys Coral Reef Ecosystem written by Marilyn E. Brandt and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral disease is playing a significant role in structuring today's coral reef communities. While monitoring programs document declines associated with coral disease, there is a lack of tools that can test hypotheses of disease incidence and control. Here, we describe a modeling tool developed to test hypotheses about the spread and impact of white plague disease in diverse coral populations distributed across heterogeneous reef landscapes. The model Simulation of Infected Corals (SICO) was based on the dynamics of white plague over the course of 6 yr of monitoring on the forereefs of Little Cayman (Cayman Islands, British West Indies). A pattern-oriented modeling approach using a genetic algorithm was used to calibrate model parameters that describe disease introduction, transmissibility, and host susceptibility. Simulation patterns most accurately reflected patterns observed at study sites when disease was introduced at regular intervals and was transmissible within a limited area. Projecting forward in time, coral cover tended to drop precipitously until colonies were so sparse that disease transmission among colonies was rare. A sensitivity analysis of disease parameters indicated that the effect of changing disease parameters depended on the type of coral community, but that in communities dominated by susceptible species, local preventative measures were generally more effective than treatment measures in limiting disease impact..--(Abstract).

Download or read book A Cooperative Multi Agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral Reef Ecosystem Classic Reprint written by Marilyn E. Brandt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Cooperative Multi-Agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral Reef Ecosystem Figures Tables Appendices x Executive Summary Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Rationale behind this Document and Reef Fish Monitoring 1 Fishing and Other Pressures on the Reef 2 Fishing Management 3 History 5 Measurable Objectives of Monitoring 7 Sampling Design 7 Rationale for Selecting This Sampling Design over Others 7 Sampling Domain 9 Sampling Frequency and Replication 9 Number and Location of Sampling Sites 9 Frequency and Timing of Sampling Level of Change that can be Detected for Sampling Being Instituted Field Methods Field Season Preparations and Equipment Setup. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Results of a Workshop on Coral Reef Research and Management in the Florida Keys written by James W. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Assessing the Health of Coral Reef Ecosystems in the Florida Keys at Community Individual and Cellular Scales written by Elizabeth M. Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral reefs are threatened in Florida and worldwide. Successful resource management requires rapid identification of anthropogenic sources of stress before they affect the reef community. I tested a multi-scale approach for assessing reef condition at seven reefs within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and Biscayne National Park between 2001 and 2003. I examined multiple environmental parameters to identify potential sources of stress. I utilized the Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment Biotic Reef Index to assess benthic community structure and an indicator species of Foraminifera (Amphistegina gibbosa) to determine if environmental conditions were suitable for calcareous organisms that host algal endosymbionts. Small tissue samples were extracted from colonies of Montastraea annularis species complex to assay a suite of cellular biomarkers to elucidate possible mechanisms of the coral stress response. I monitored regeneration rates of the resultant lesions to determine if the coral colonies were capable of recovering from damage. Multivariate data analyses indicated that corals at all study sites were experiencing stress with different degrees of response and decline. On reefs with coarse grain sediments that are adjacent to an intact mangrove shoreline, the Cellular Diagnostic System indicated that corals were responding to a xenobiotic stress but appeared to be compensating as evidenced by consistently high lesion regeneration rates, a high percentage of healed lesions, low coral mortality and high abundances of A. gibbosa. On reefs with silt-sized sediments adjacent to developed coastlines, corals also were responding to xenobiotic stresses, but were negatively affected as evidenced by low regeneration rates, a low percentage of healed lesions, high coral mortality, and low abundances of A. gibbosa. Corals at an 18 m offshore site exhibited abnormally low biomarker levels and some died during the study, indicating that sampled colonies were incapable of upregulating necessary protective proteins. Further research will be required to determine stressor sources. This study demonstrates that a multiple-indicator approach, spanning scales from cellular to community, can provide marine resource managers with data linking decline of coral populations to specific environmental conditions and events, thereby providing potential for early detection of stressors allowing for preventive management.

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Download or read book Emerging Technologies for Reef Fisheries Research and Management written by James Christopher Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication of the NOAA Professional Paper NMFS Series is the product of a special symposium on "Emerging Technologies for Reef Fisheries Research and Management" held during the 56th annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute meeting in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, November 2003. The purpose of this collection is to highlight the diversity of questions and issues in reef fisheries management that are benefiting from applications of technology. Topics cover a wide variety of questions and issues from the study of individual behavior, distribution and abundance of groups and populations, and associations between habitats and fish and shellfish species.

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Download or read book Establish Baseline Optical Conditions in the Florida Keys Coral Reefs and Quantify Spatial and Temporal Variability written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This document reports the results for the characterization of the underwater optical properties over the Florida Keys reef tract in space and time during the interdisciplinary bimonthly shipboard cruises of the South Florida Monitoring Program (SFP)"--Page 1.

Download or read book Final Report to the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges on Coral Reef Fish and Invertebrate Communities Habitat Connectivity and Recruitment Within and to the Key West and Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuges Parts I and II written by Jack A. Sobel and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: