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S4 Fig. Photographs of Acropora palmata-dominated fringing reef on seaward side of Sandy Island (12.4855, -61.4829), Carriacou, illustrating the process of reef flattening between 1969 and 2016.
1969: Intact, living A. palmata reef. 1996: A. palmata entirely dead but mostly still in-place following die-off from White Band Disease in late 1970s/early 1980s; a few small colonies of a new generation of A. palmata were present. 2016: Original A. palmata framework reduced to rubble, no substantive replacement by newer colonies. (Photographs by David Patriquin.) For details of changes from 1969 to 1996, see Patriquin DG, Hunte W. Preliminary observations of the status of shallow water reefs at Sandy Island, Carriacou, Grenada. Report to the Grenada Board of Tourism and the Kido Project Environment Station, Carriacou. 1997. Available at: https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/82532.
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