A5035106960- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Marine and fisheries research
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
Florida Institute of Technology
2020-2024
Mote Marine Laboratory
2021
The population decline and lack of natural recovery multiple coral species along the Florida reef tract have instigated expanding application restoration conservation efforts. Few studies, however, determined optimal locations for survival outplanted colonies from nurseries. This study predicts Acropora palmata using a boosted-regression-tree model to examine relationships between occurrence wild A . ten environmental variables. Our results predicted was most likely occur in shallow habitats...
In recent decades, the Florida reef tract has lost over 95% of its coral cover. Although isolated assemblages persist, restoration programs are attempting to recover local populations. Listed as threatened under Endangered Species Act, Acropora cervicornis is most widely targeted species for in Florida. Yet strategies still maturing enhance survival nursery‐reared outplants A. colonies on natural reefs. This study examined 22,634 raised nurseries along and outplanted six habitats seven...
Seagrass meadows are hotspots of biodiversity with considerable economic and ecological value. The health seagrass ecosystems is influenced in part by the makeup stability their microbiome, but microbiome composition can be sensitive to environmental change such as nutrient availability, elevated temperatures, reduced pH. objective present study was characterize bacterial community leaves, bulk samples roots rhizomes, proximal sediment species Cymodocea nodosa along natural pH gradient...
Over the past three decades, coral populations have declined across tropical and subtropical oceans because of thermal stress, diseases, pollution. Restoration programs are currently attempting to re-establish depauperate along Florida reef tract. We took an integrated Bayesian approach determine which reefs ranked highest based on survival outplanted colonies Acropora cervicornis from 2012 2018. Survival A. outplants was highly variable in upper Keys with some showing likelihood (e.g.,...