Documenting hurricane impacts on coral reefs using two-dimensional video-mosaic technology

Arthur C.R. Gleason; Diego Lirman; Dana Williams; Nuno R. Gracias; Brooke E. Gintert; Hossein Madjidi; R. Pamela Reid; G. Chris Boynton; Shahriar Negahdaripour; Margaret Miller; Philip Kramer

doi:10.1111/j.1439-0485.2006.00140.x

Documenting hurricane impacts on coral reefs using two-dimensional video-mosaic technology

Arthur C.R. Gleason, Diego Lirman, Dana Williams, Nuno R. Gracias, Brooke E. Gintert, Hossein Madjidi, R. Pamela Reid, G. Chris Boynton, Shahriar Negahdaripour, Margaret Miller, Philip Kramer

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Four hurricanes impacted the reefs of Florida in 2005. In this study, we evaluate the combined impacts of hurricanes Dennis, Katrina, Rita, and Wilma on a population of Acropora palmata using a newly developed video-mosaic methodology that provides a high-resolution, spatially accurate landscape view of the reef benthos. Storm damage to A. palmata was surprisingly limited; only 2 out of 19 colonies were removed from the study plot at Molasses Reef. The net tissue losses for those colonies that remained were only 10% and mean diameter of colonies decreased slightly from 88.4 to 79.6 cm. In contrast, the damage to the reef framework was more severe, and a large section (6 m in diameter) was dislodged, overturned, and transported to the bottom of the reef spur. The data presented here show that two-dimensional video-mosaic technology is well-suited to assess the impacts of physical disturbance on coral reefs and can be used to complement existing survey methodologies.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	254-258
Number of pages	5
Journal	Marine Ecology
Volume	28
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2006.00140.x
State	Published - Jun 1 2007

Keywords

Acropora palmata
Florida
Hurricane damage
Reef framework damage
Video-mosaics

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Aquatic Science

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Documenting hurricane impacts on coral reefs using two-dimensional video-mosaic technology. / Gleason, Arthur C.R.; Lirman, Diego; Williams, Dana; Gracias, Nuno R.; Gintert, Brooke E.; Madjidi, Hossein; Pamela Reid, R.; Boynton, G. Chris; Negahdaripour, Shahriar; Miller, Margaret; Kramer, Philip.

In: Marine Ecology, Vol. 28, No. 2, 01.06.2007, p. 254-258.

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