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Short-term temporal trends of a coral reef in Samana (Dominican Republic): The value of a permanent monitoring program to identify drivers of rapid change
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Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute Partnership
Abstract
Permanent monitoring programs are valuable to identify drivers of ecosystem trends. For example, in 2021, we reported the first record of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (sctld) along the northeastern coast of the Dominican Republic, affecting major reef—building coral species with a prevalence above 30%. However, a few sites such as Carenero remained unaffected by sctld for almost 2 years. The average coral cover in this site was about 18—25% (mean 18.3% ± sd 1.5), and disease prevalence did not exceed 7% in the coral community. During the first quarter of 2022, a few colonies (
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78
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Recommended Citation
Croquer, A., S. Zambrano, D. Y. Evangelista-Perez, S. King, S. Guendulain-Garcia, M. Villalpando and R. Sellares-Blasco.
2024.
Short-term temporal trends of a coral reef in Samana (Dominican Republic): The value of a permanent monitoring program to identify drivers of rapid change.
Gulf and Caribbean Research
35
(1):
65-78.
Retrieved from https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr/vol35/iss1/16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18785/gcr.3501.16
