Demographic monitoring protocols for threatened Caribbean Acropora spp. corals /

"This manual is intended to serve as a basic but evolving platform to involve many partners in collecting comparable data sets focused on Atlantic Acropora spp. from a variety of locations throughout the Caribbean. This data will be utilized in the ongoing efforts and responsibilities of NOAA-F...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Williams, Dana E. (Dana Elizabeth)
Corporate Authors:	Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.), Southeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
Other Authors:	Miller, Margaret W. (Margaret Wohlenberg), Kramer, K. Lindsey
Format:	Government Document eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Miami, Fla. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, [2006]
Series:	NOAA technical memorandum NMFS-SEFSC ; 543.
Subjects:	Coral reef conservation > Caribbean Area. Corals > Monitoring > Caribbean Area. Acropora > Monitoring > Caribbean Area. Endangered species > Caribbean Area.
Online Access:	https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo3887

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Summary:	"This manual is intended to serve as a basic but evolving platform to involve many partners in collecting comparable data sets focused on Atlantic Acropora spp. from a variety of locations throughout the Caribbean. This data will be utilized in the ongoing efforts and responsibilities of NOAA-Fisheries to assess species' status and promote recovery under the auspices of the US Endangered Species Act. The protocols described in this manual have been developed over a period of five years of focal monitoring of primarily A. palmata in the upper Florida Keys by our team. We have also applied these techniques in Tortola, BVI and Curacao. Obviously, every population and site is different and may require adaptation to the specific monitoring methods"--Intro.
Item Description:	Title from title screen (viewed on Oct. 13, 2009). NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, Acropora spp. monitoring in the eastern Caribbean. Project ID: 10038-06. Principal Investigator: Margaret Miller. "October 2006." Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (v, 91 pages, 10 unnumbered pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 32-34).