Global Reef Expedition Final Report: Jamaica

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Fig. 51. Mean rank (and standard deviation) for each of the seven parameters pooled for all sites examined on Pedro Bank. 3.5 3

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Fig. 52. Indicators of reef health on Pedro Bank. The mean and standard deviation of the coral health index (coral cover, recruitment and coral disease), reef health (macroalgal cover, herbivore fish biomass, commercial fish biomass and Diadema abundance), overall Reef Health Index (RHI; average of coral health and reef health) and a Simplified Reef Health Index (SRHI) using only coral cover, macroalgal cover, herbivore fish biomass and commercial fish biomass) for the 19 sites (pooled).

Global Reef Expedition Final Report: Jamaica

Published on May 13, 2012

Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation

About

In March of 2012, scientists on the Global Reef Expedition set out to assess the community structure, health, and resilience of corals and coral reef fish on Pedro Bank in Jamaica. This scientific report summarizes our findings from that mission. This report has been shared with government officials, local stakeholders, and conservation organizations to help them preserve and protect coral reefs in Jamaica—and led to the creation of a marine protected area in Pedro Bank. The research summarized in this report is part of the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation's Global Reef Expedition, a large-scale scientific research mission which nearly circumnavigated the globe studying the health and resiliency of some of the most remote coral reefs on Earth. The primary goals of the expedition were to map and characterize coral reef ecosystems, identify their current status and major threats, and examine factors that enhance their ability to survive—and recover from—major disturbance events.

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