Dataset: Coral species identifications, size, condition from the Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS), November 2014

Final no updates expectedDOI: 10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.734478.2Version 2 (2018-05-02)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Principal Investigator: Karl D. Castillo (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Student, Contact: Justin Baumann (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Investigating the influence of thermal history on coral growth response to recent and predicted end-of-century ocean warming across a cascade of ecological scales (Thermal History and Coral Growth)


Abstract

This dataset contains coral species identifications, size, and condition from the Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS), November 2014. These data were reported in Baumann et al. (2016), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162098.

This dataset contains coral species identifications, size, and condition from the Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS), November 2014.

These data were reported in Baumann et al. (2016), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162098.


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Results

Baumann, J. H., Townsend, J. E., Courtney, T. A., Aichelman, H. E., Davies, S. W., Lima, F. P., & Castillo, K. D. (2016). Temperature Regimes Impact Coral Assemblages along Environmental Gradients on Lagoonal Reefs in Belize. PLOS ONE, 11(9), e0162098. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0162098
Methods

Darling, E. S., Alvarez-Filip, L., Oliver, T. A., McClanahan, T. R., & Côté, I. M. (2012). Evaluating life-history strategies of reef corals from species traits. Ecology Letters, 15(12), 1378–1386. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01861.x
Methods

Ginsburg R, Lang J. Status of coral reefs in the western Atlantic: Results of initial surveys, Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment (AGRRA) program. Atoll Research Bulletin #496, 2003 https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/7726/00496.00x.pdf