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Watershed management to support coral reef recovery and resiliency

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Abstract

Coral reef habitats in the Caribbean region have experienced significant reductions in abundance over the past several decades. These declines are due to both global stressors, such as increases in sea surface temperatures and ocean acidification, and localized stressors, such as land-based sources of pollution (LBSPs). Climate change has led to increased occurrence and extent of coral bleaching events, tropical storms and hurricanes, and coral disease.

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Citation

Vandiver, Lisa; Moore, Tom; Griffin, Sean; Nemeth, Michael; Ferguson, Rob. 2016. Watershed management to support coral reef recovery and resiliency. In: Stringer, Christina E.; Krauss, Ken W.; Latimer, James S., eds. 2016. Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management -Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. March 2-5, 2015, North Charleston, South Carolina. e-General Technical  Report  SRS-211. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 1 p.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/51039