Coral Colony Area in Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary from 2015-01-01 to 2023-04-30 (NCEI Accession 0280384)

Vital rate data on individual colonies of Orbicella franksi were collected in both East and West Flower Garden Banks from 2011 through 2015. Empirical data were obtained from Maher et al. (2018) in which a total of 121 randomly selected O. franksi coral colonies were photographed for five years
(2011–2015), and planar projections were drawn digitally and recorded as a representation of colony area (cm2). These empirical data were used to estimate annual growth rates of various sized coral colonies. While
coral populations at these reefs are relatively stable and free from disease, in the summer of 2016 a coral mortality event affected parts of East FGB. This disturbance was driven by the effects of floodwaters reaching the area, in conjunction with localized upwelling, ultimately leading to hypoxia (Johnston et al., 2019b, 2019a; Kealoha et al., 2020; Shore et al., 2021; Wright et al. 2019; Doyle et al. 2022).

本数据集收录了自2011年至2015年间，在东、西花园区珊瑚礁对Orbicella franksi珊瑚个体群体的生存率数据进行收集。数据来源于Maher等人（2018）的研究，其中随机选取了121个O. franksi珊瑚群体，对其进行了为期五年的摄影记录（2011-2015），并绘制了珊瑚群体的平面投影图，以此作为珊瑚群体面积（平方厘米）的表征。这些实证数据被用于估算不同规模珊瑚群体的年生长率。尽管这些珊瑚礁的珊瑚种群相对稳定且未受疾病侵袭，但在2016年夏季，一场珊瑚死亡事件影响了东花园区的一部分。此次扰动由洪水涌入该区域，伴随局部上升流效应共同驱动，最终导致缺氧（Johnston等人，2019b，2019a；Kealoha等人，2020；Shore等人，2021；Wright等人，2019；Doyle等人，2022）。