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（网址：http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/crest/）所产出的科研成果，可为肩负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，精准掌握栖息于动态近岸环境中的珊瑚及其伴生动植物所经历的水温状况，对于明确其温度耐受阈值具有关键意义。本数据集涵盖了2009年至2015年间，美国佛罗里达礁岛群（Florida Keys）5处近海珊瑚礁站点每15分钟采集的水下水温数据。按东北至西南的顺序，这些站点依次为：富伊岩礁（比斯坎国家公园，Biscayne National Park）、糖蜜礁（佛罗里达礁岛群国家海洋保护区，Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, FKNMS）、克罗克礁（FKNMS）、松布雷罗礁（FKNMS）以及普拉斯基浅滩（德赖托图格斯国家公园，Dry Tortugas National Park）。本数据集的部分内容曾与Kuffner等人（2013年）的珊瑚及藻类钙化率研究结合开展解读分析。