Found 70 datasets matching "Conch".
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The queen conch (Aliger gigas) is a large marine gastropod that supports an economically and culturally important fishery in the Caribbean. Widespread population declines driven largely by...
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We examined queen conch populations on the northeastern coast of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, using a radial survey sampling technique with sample sites stratified by depth, habitat type, and...
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The queen conch is an important cultural component and an extremely valuable coral reef fishery resource throughout the Caribbean, historically second only to the spiny lobster. Comparisons of...
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The queen conch is an important cultural component and an extremely valuable coral reef fishery resource throughout the Caribbean, historically second only to the spiny lobster. Comparisons of...
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Marine protected areas (MPAs) can be highly effective tools for conserving habitats, populations, and sustainable fisheries. The National Park Service (NPS) is hosting a collaboration of...
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This part of the release provides an georeferenced list on the most conspicuous of the onshore heaps of harvested conch shells on Anegada, a low Caribbean island perched south of the Puerto Rico...
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This part of the data release catalogs 40 offshore conch heaps mapped on airphotos and satellite images. Conch shells harvested around Anegada since the start of European colonization, which began...
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This part of the release provides an updated georeferenced catalog of strewn conch shells pertaining to extreme waves on Anegada, a low Caribbean island perched south of the Puerto Rico Trench....
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This dataset contains shell lengths and lip thicknesses of queen conch individuals located and measured while conducting radial surveys of the conch populations on the northern shelf of St. Croix....
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This dataset contains shell lengths and lip thicknesses of queen conch individuals located and measured while conducting radial surveys of the conch populations on the northern shelf of St. Croix....
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This archive package contains long-term calcification data from coral cores extracted from Cheeca Rocks and Little Conch Reef in the Florida Keys as part of the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation...
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This archive package contains long-term calcification data from coral cores extracted from Cheeca Rocks and Little Conch Reef in the Florida Keys as part of the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation...
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Worldwide coral reef ecosystems are being threatened by a range of human activities. Sedimentation, overfishing, global climate change, ship groundings, pathogens and pollution are some of the...
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A proteome profiling approach was taken to characterize the cellular biology of massive corals of the Upper Florida Keys exposed to experimentally elevated temperatures. Specifically, Orbicella...
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Reef-building corals (Orbicella faveolata) were sampled at both inshore (The Rocks and Cheeca Rocks) and offshore reefs (Little Conch and Crocker Reef) under Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary...
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Temperature loggers were deployed at various monitoring sites off the upper Florida Keys where other ecological studies were underway, most focused on aspects of Acropora spp. status or ecology....
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Temperature loggers were deployed at various monitoring sites off the upper Florida Keys where other ecological studies were underway, most focused on aspects of Acropora spp. status or ecology....
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This data represents 9 geographic areas described in Title 50 CFR Part 622, Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic, Subpart S - Reef Fish Fishery of Puerto Rico and the...
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This release provides inventories of georeferenced evidence pertaining to extreme waves on Anegada, a low Caribbean island perched south of the Puerto Rico Trench: CORAL BOULDERS AND COBBLES --...
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The Puerto Rico Coral Reef Monitoring Program data files include all raw data (by transect) for 86 stations where substrate cover by sessile-benthic categories and fish and motile megabenthic...
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