Underwater temperature data collected from off-shore coral reefs of the Florida Keys, U.S.A.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coral Reef Ecosystems Studies (CREST) project (http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/crest/) provides science that helps resource managers tasked with the stewardship of coral reef resources. Coral reef organisms are very sensitive to high and low water-temperature extremes. It is critical to precisely know water temperatures experienced by corals and associated plants and animals that live in the dynamic nearshore environment to document thresholds in temperature tolerance. This dataset provides underwater temperature data recorded every fifteen minutes from 2009 to 2015 at five off-shore coral reefs in the Florida Keys, USA. From northeast to southwest, these sites are Fowey Rocks (Biscayne National Park), Molasses Reef (Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, FKNMS), Crocker Reef (FKNMS), Sombrero Reef (FKNMS), and Pulaski Shoal (Dry Tortugas National Park). A portion of the dataset included here was interpreted in conjunction with coral and algal calcification rates in Kuffner et al. (2013).美国地质调查局（U.S. Geological Survey, USGS）珊瑚礁生态系统研究（Coral Reef Ecosystems Studies, CREST）项目（http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/crest/）所产出的科研成果，可为承担珊瑚礁资源管护职责的资源管理者提供决策支撑。珊瑚礁生物对水温的极端高低值极为敏感，精准掌握珊瑚以及栖息于动态近岸环境中的相关动植物所经历的水温情况，对于明确其温度耐受阈值至关重要。本数据集收录了2009年至2015年间，美国佛罗里达基群岛外5处近海珊瑚礁海域每15分钟记录一次的水下温度数据。按东北至西南的顺序，这些监测点位依次为：福伊岩礁（比斯坎国家公园）、糖蜜礁（佛罗里达基群岛国家海洋保护区，Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, FKNMS）、克罗克礁（FKNMS）、索布雷罗礁（FKNMS）以及普拉斯基浅滩（德赖托图格斯国家公园）。本数据集的部分内容曾与Kuffner等人（2013）开展的珊瑚及藻类钙化率研究结合进行解读分析。