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Coral Reef Initiative Database
Florida
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Pensacola Naval Base
NOAA. Pensacola Naval Air Station environmental report.
Florida Keys
Ault, JS, JA Bohnsack, GA Meester. 1998. A retrospective (1979-1996) multispecies assessment of coral reef fish stocks in the Florida Keys. Fishery Bulletin. 96:3: 395-414.
Chiappone, M, Sluka, R, and Sealey, KS. 2000. Groupers (Pisces: Serranidae) in fished and protected areas of the Florida Keys, Bahamas and northern Caribbean. Marine Ecology Progress Series 198: 261-272.
Dodge, R. E., A. V. Soloviev, T. Gustafson, M. E. Luther, R. H. Weisberg. 2006. Response of the Coastal Ocean on the Southeast Florida Shelf to Tropical Cyclones During 1999-2005 Hurricane Seasons. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(36), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS16H-14.
Dustan, P. 1977. Vitality of reef coral populations off Key Largo, Florida: Recruitment and mortality Environmental Geology 2:1:51-58.
Dustan, P. 1999. Coral reefs under stress: Sources of mortality in the Florida Keys
Natural Resources Forum. Dordrecht [Nat. Resour. Forum] 23: 2: 147-155.
Gischler, E. 2007. A decade of decline of massive corals in Florida patch reefs. Atoll Research Bulletin 547: 1-12.
Lapointe, BE, PJ Barile, WR Matzie. 2004. Anthropogenic nutrient enrichment of seagrass and coral reef communities in the lower Florida Keys: discrimination of local versus regional nitrogen sources. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 308: 23-58.
Lapointe, B. and M. Clark. 1992. Nutrient Inputs from the Watershed and Coastal Eutrophication in the Florida Keys. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 15:4: 465-476.
Manzello, D. P., M. Brandt, T. B. Smith, D. Lirman, J. C. Hendee and R. S. Nemeth. 2007. Hurricanes benefit bleached corals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(29):12035-12039.
Porter, JW, P Dustan, WC Jaap, KL Patterson, V Kosmynin, OW Meier, ME Patterson, M Parsons. 2001, Patterns of coral disease in the Florida Keys. Hydrobiologia 460: 1-24.
Porter, J.W., V. Kosmynin, K. L. Patterson, K. G. Porter,W. C. Jaap, J. L. Wheaton, K. Hackett, M. Lybolt, C. P. Tsokos, G. Yanev, D.M.Marcinek, J. Dotten, D. Eaken, M. Patterson, O.W.Meier, M. Brill & P. Dustan. 2002. Detection of coral reef change by the Florida Keys Coral Reef Monitoring Project. In Porter, J. W. & K. G. Porter (eds), The Everglades, Florida Bay, and Coral Reefs of the Florida Keys. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL: 749–769.
Porter, JW, SK Lewis, and KG Porter. 1999. The effect of multiple stressors on the Florida Keys coral reef ecosystem: a landscape hypothesis and a physiological test. Limnology and Oceanography 44(3, Part 2): 941-949.
Porter, J. and O. Meier. 1992. Quantification of Loss and Change in Floridian Reef Coral Populations. American Zoologist 32:6:625-640.
Szmant, AM and NJ Gassman. 1990. The effects of prolonged “bleaching” on the tissue biomass and reproduction of the reef coral Montastrea annularis. Coral Reefs 8:217-224.
Talge, H. 1992. Impact of recreational divers on scleratinian corals at Looe Key, Florida. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Coral Reef Symposium, Guam. 2: 1077-1082.
Vargas-Angel, B., E. C. Peters, E. Kramarsky-Winter, D. S. Gilliam and R. E. Dodge. 2007. Cellular reactions to sedimentation and temperature stress in the Caribbean coral Montastraea cavernosa. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 95(2): 140-145.
Woodley, C., C. Downs, J. Fauth, J. Halas, P. Muller, R. Curry, E. Fisher. 2004. Coral reef health assessment in the Florida Keys. In Abstract Book Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry’s Fourth SETAC World Congress and 25th Annual Meeting in North America.
General Florida Information
Earthdive. 2006. Safeguards “too little, too late” for Florida reefs. On-line article: http://www.earthdive.com/front_end/news/newsdetail.asp?id=1738. June 30.
Santavy, DL, JK Summers, VD Engle, LC Harwell. 2005. The condition of coral reefs in South Florida (2000) using coral disease and bleaching as indicators. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 100: 129-152.
Smith, FGW, RH Williams, CC Davis. 1950. An ecological survey of the subtropical inshore waters adjacent to Miami. Ecology. 31:1: 119-146.
Tilmant, JT and GP Schmahl. 1982. A comparative analysis of coral damage on recreationally used reefs within Biscayne National Park, Florida. In: E.D. Gomez, C.E. Birkeland, R.W. Buddemeier, R.E. Johannes, J.A. Marsh, Jr. and R.T. Tsuda (eds.) Proceedings of the 4th International Coral Reef Symposium Vol. 1. Marine Science Center, University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines. 187-192.
Waddell, JE (ed.). 2005. The State of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States: 2005. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS 11. NOAA/NCCOS Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment’s Biogeography Team. Silver Spring, MD. 522 pp.
Wilkinson, C (ed.). 2004. Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2004, Volume 2. Australian Institute of Marine Science.
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