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Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has caused unprecedented coral mortality across Florida’s Coral Reef (FCR) since 2014, raising concerns about whether coral restoration can succeed under chronic disease conditions and whether outplanting activities may increase disease transmission risk. As the disease transitioned from epizootic outbreak to enzootic persistence, we conducted a large-scale experimental outplanting to as...
A Sponge Mortality Event Associated With a Picocyanobacterial Bloom in a Semi-Enclosed Basin in Central Florida Bay, USANARA Subscribed
Sponges historically dominated the heterotrophic biomass of Florida Bay’s hard-bottom communities, and the ecological services they provide have long been recognized. However, these communities have become degraded over the last several decades, in part, due to periodic cyanobacterial blooms. During August 2013 a detailed assessment of a sponge community across a semi-enclosed basin within central Florida Bay, colloquially kno...
Spatiotemporal patterns in Diadema antillarum settlement in the Florida Keys: implications for habitat restorationNARA Subscribed
The long-spined sea urchin ( Diadema antillarum ) is a key herbivore on Caribbean coral reefs, but mass mortality events have severely reduced its populations, diminishing grazing pressure and contributing to reef degradation. In the Florida Keys, where D. antillarum remains scarce, the extent and variability of larval settlement are poorly understood, yet this information is critical for predicting and managing population rec...
SNAPSHOT USA 2019–2023: The First Five Years of Data From a Coordinated Camera Trap Survey of the United StatesNARA Subscribed
Motivation SNAPSHOT USA is an annual, multicontributor camera trap survey of mammals across the United States. The growing SNAPSHOT USA dataset is intended for tracking the spatial and temporal responses of mammal populations to changes in land use, land cover and climate. These data will be useful for exploring the drivers of spatial and temporal changes in relative abundance and distribution, as well as the impacts of specie...
Restoration of herbivory on Caribbean coral reefs: are fishes, urchins, or crabs the solution?OA Marine
That coral reefs are in decline worldwide, particularly in the Caribbean, will come as no surprise. This decades-long decline has reached a potential tipping point as the weight of the effects of climate change have come decidedly to bear on the planet’s most diverse marine ecosystem. Whether coral reefs can persist without restorative intervention is debatable, which has prompted a surge in coral reef restoration projects foc...
Prolonging survival in good health is a fundamental societal goal. However, the leading determinants of disability-free survival in healthy older people have not been well established. Data from ASPREE, a bi-national placebo-controlled trial of aspirin with 4.7 years median follow-up, was analysed. At enrolment, participants were healthy and without prior cardiovascular events, dementia or persistent physical disability. Disab...
Biomarkers of Acute Stroke Etiology (BASE) Study MethodologyNARA Subscribed
Mass mortality of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum due to disease outbreaks in 1983 and 1991 decimated populations in the Florida Keys, and they have yet to recover. Here, we use a coupled advection–diffusion and fertilization–kinetics model to test the hypothesis that these populations are fertilization limited. We found that fertilization success was ≥ 96% prior to the first disease outbreak, decreased substantially followi...
Is seagrass an important nursery habitat for the Caribbean spiny lobster, panulirus argus , in Florida?NARA Subscribed
Caribbean spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) settle preferentially in macroalgal‐covered hard‐bottom habitat, but seagrass is more prevalent in Florida (United States) and the Caribbean, so even low settlement of lobsters within seagrass could contribute substantially to recruitment if post‐settlement survival and growth were high. We tested the role of seagrass and hard‐bottom habitats for P. argus recruitment in three ways. We...
Long‐term trends in the recreational lobster fishery of Florida, United States: Landings, effort, and implications for managementNARA Subscribed
In Florida, United States, the Caribbean spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, supports an important commercial fishery and also perhaps the most intensive recreational fishery of any lobster species, with sales of recreational lobster fishing permits exceeding 100 000 annually. For the past decade, we have used mail surveys of recreational lobster license holders to estimate spatially explicit landings and fishing effort when recre...
The fluxes of several organochlorine compounds (OCs) to and from a high‐altitude lake were calculated to determine the relative contributions of rainfall, snowfall, runoff, gas absorption and volatilization, sedimentation, and outflow. Runoff inputs, particularly from a glaciated catchment, and gas absorption were major sources of many OCs. Losses by volatilization, outflow, and sedimentation were also important transport path...
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