[Coral-List] Fwd: Transformation of Caribbean reefs

[William Precht]

Reminder - Call for papers

Frontiers in Marine Science

Special Topic: Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease in the Caribbean

Manuscript submission for Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease in the Caribbean
hosted by William F. Precht, Sarah A. Gignoux-Wolfsohn, Lorenzo
Alvarez-Filip, Christina A Kellogg, and Les Kaufman.

The deadline for article submission has been extended until 17 March.

https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/16501/stony-coral-tissue-loss-disease-in-the-caribbean

Thank you

Bill Precht







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> From: Pawlik, Joseph via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
> Date: Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 12:45 PM
> Subject: [Coral-List] Transformation of Caribbean reefs
> To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>,
> PORIFERA at JISCMAIL.AC.UK <PORIFERA at jiscmail.ac.uk>
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> Colleagues,
>
>      Because of the pandemic, many of us are not doing field-work,
> traveling, or diving. For those of us who work on reefs in the Caribbean,
> many have missed the accelerating loss of the remaining stony corals,
> particularly at fore-reef depths >10 m.
> This link provides video surveys from January 2021 of reefs on the NW and
> SW sides of the island of Roatan, Honduras, and a seamount between the
> island and mainland.
> https://youtu.be/507OpUfd3Mc
> You can see the final stages of coral loss due to recent bleaching events
> and disease. Seaweeds, sponges, and octocorals now dominate the benthos.
> Near-shore and seamount reefs have been similarly affected, suggesting that
> local run-off and point-sources of pollution are not the primary causes of
> coral loss.
>      A video from a year ago documents the final stages of coral loss on
> the fore-reefs of the Turks and Caicos. The pace of coral loss appeared
> more rapid there, but the outcome was the same.
> https://youtu.be/11ywGm33wnM
> The purpose of these posts is not to depress the heck out of everyone
> (however likely), but to raise awareness of the reality of Caribbean reefs
> at the present time. It is one thing to look at a graph of declining
> percentage cover of stony corals (with the most recent data from several
> years ago), and another to see the current state of the reefs.
>
> Regards,
>
> Joe
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> don't have the strength."
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-- 
William F. Precht

 “You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice
you have”

Bob Marley


"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't
have the strength."

Theodore Roosevelt


-- 
William F. Precht

 “You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice
you have”

Bob Marley


"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't
have the strength."

Theodore Roosevelt