Recent decade of growth and calcification of <em>Orbicella faveolata</em> in the Florida Keys: an inshore-offshore comparison
Coral reefs along the Florida Keys portion of the Florida Reef Tract (FRT) have undergone a dramatic decline since the 1980s. Since the 1997-1998 El Niño event, coral cover on offshore reefs of the FRT has been ≤5% and continues to decline. Mortality of the framework-constructing coral in the Orbicella (formerly Montastraea) annularis species complex has driven this recent loss […]