Coral Reef Monitoring for Climate Change Impacts

(9) The CPACC Monitoring Regime.

1. Reefs are being monitored in 3 countries:

•The Bahamas,

•Belize,

•Jamaica.

2. Three types of reef location are being monitored in each country:

•pristine,

•mildly impacted,

•heavily impacted.

3.The fore reef slope is the target habitat that is being monitored at each reef location:

4.Monitoring is conducted once per year at each site to document (a) coral reef health (b) water temperature.


	Workshop consensus on the way forward.
	•Build on and extend existing monitoring programmes.
	•The CARICOMP programme was CPACC’s point of departure.

	•The long term decline in the health of Caribbean reefs makes it
	•is difficult to distinguish anthropogenic from natural disturbances,
	•except in instances of severe anthropogenic
	•degradation (N.V.C. Polunin and I.D. Williams, 1999).