{"id":5578,"date":"2026-02-09T13:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/?page_id=5578"},"modified":"2026-02-10T06:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:48:24","slug":"cc-reef-flattening","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/obssg\/carriacou-seagrass-beds\/cc-reef-flattening\/","title":{"rendered":"CC Reef Flattening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small>NAVIGATION<br \/>\nThis page is a sub-page of <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/obssg\/\"><strong>ObsSG<\/strong><\/a>, a top-level page on<br \/>\nthe website <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/\"><strong>Barbados Fringing Reefs and Seagrass Beds<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n(www.versicolor.ca\/barbados).<br \/>\nGo to <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/obssg\/\"><strong>ObsSG<\/strong><\/a> for a list of other subpages in this section<br \/>\nof the website.<\/small><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_5580\" style=\"width: 2476px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/journal.pone_.0306897.s007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5580\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5580\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/journal.pone_.0306897.s007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2466\" height=\"2598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/journal.pone_.0306897.s007.jpg 2466w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/journal.pone_.0306897.s007-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/journal.pone_.0306897.s007-768x809.jpg 768w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/journal.pone_.0306897.s007-972x1024.jpg 972w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2466px) 100vw, 2466px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article\/file?type=supplementary&amp;id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0306897.s007\">S4 Fig. <\/a><strong>Photographs of <em>Acropora palmata<\/em>-dominated fringing reef on seaward side of Sandy Island<\/strong> <strong>(12.4855, -61.4829), Carriacou, illustrating the process of reef flattening between 1969 and 2016.<\/strong><br \/><a id=\"article1.body1.sec5.supplementary-material7.caption1.p1\" class=\"link-target\" name=\"article1.body1.sec5.supplementary-material7.caption1.p1\"><\/a>1969: Intact, living <em>A<\/em>. <em>palmata<\/em> reef. 1996: <em>A<\/em>. <em>palmata<\/em> 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 <em>A<\/em>. <em>palmata<\/em> were present. 2016: Original <em>A<\/em>. <em>palmata<\/em> 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: <a href=\"https:\/\/dalspace.library.dal.ca\/handle\/10222\/82532\">https:\/\/dalspace.library.dal.ca\/handle\/10222\/82532<\/a>.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0306897.s007\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0306897.s007<\/a><br \/><a id=\"article1.body1.sec5.supplementary-material7.caption1.p2\" class=\"link-target\" name=\"article1.body1.sec5.supplementary-material7.caption1.p2\"><\/a>(PDF)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAVIGATION This page is a sub-page of ObsSG, a top-level page on the website Barbados Fringing Reefs and Seagrass Beds (www.versicolor.ca\/barbados). 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