2022 Advancing Coral Reef Research and Resilience in Southeast Florida

This project applied multiple complementary approaches to help understand, reduce, and mitigate coral reef declines in southeast Florida. Continued monitoring of coral disease incidence and prevalence in the northern portion of the Coral ECA was coupled with ongoing disease intervention experiments, coral population genetics to inform population management and coral restoration, and experimental coral salinity thresholds tests. Collectively this project was designed to improve our overall understanding of the spatial extent and dynamics of this disease outbreak, prevalence, species affected, factors contributing to disease, and methods to reduce coral losses.