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    "tag": 19187,
    "title": "Carbonate Budgets, Structure-from-Motion Products, and Topographic Complexity Measurements From Restored and Non-Restored Areas of Coral Reefs in the Lower Florida Keys",
    "pubdate": "20250604",
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    "descript": "During the summers of 2022 and 2023, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) researchers conducted underwater surveys aimed at quantifying the impact that past coral restoration by Mote Marine Laboratory had on the reef-accretion process. The surveys were conducted along paired transects representing restored and non-restored areas of eight offshore reefs and three patch-reef sites in the Lower Florida Keys. At each location on each reef, USGS researchers conducted photographic surveys (these images are published in an accompanying release by Johnson and others, 2025) to generate structure-from-motion (SfM) products (point clouds, orthomosaics, and digital surface models [DSMs]), which were used to quantify percent cover of corals and other benthos and topographic complexity. USGS researchers also conducted census surveys of bioeroding parrotfishes, urchins, and sponges at each site.",
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    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Toth, Lauren T.",
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        {
            "name": "Johnson, Selena A.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Lyons, Erin O.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Jenkins, Connor M.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Stathakopoulos, Anastasios",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Bloomer, Sierra K.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Mallon, Jennifer",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Combs, Ian",
            "role": "Author"
        }
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            "code": "177",
            "name": "coelenterates",
            "scope": "Freshwater and marine invertebrates, such as corals, jellyfish, and sea anemones, belonging to the phylum Coelenterata and living as sedentary polyps or free swimming medusae."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
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            "name": "ecological processes",
            "scope": "Dynamic biogeochemical interactions that occur among and between biotic and abiotic components of the biosphere."
        },
        {
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            "code": "311",
            "name": "ecology",
            "scope": "Study of the relations between living plants and animals and their environment."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "315",
            "name": "ecosystem functions",
            "scope": "The total life activities of organisms in habitats and the effects of those activities on the nonliving components of the environment."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "316",
            "name": "ecosystem management",
            "scope": "Means of controlling or directing human practices, species populations, and physical environment within an ecosystem to achieve a selected state of sustainability."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
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            "scope": "Recording, evaluating, and actively intervening over time in the interaction of living and nonliving elements in a specific environment."
        },
        {
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            "code": "353",
            "name": "erosion",
            "scope": "The process whereby materials of the earth's crust are loosened, dissolved, or worn away and simultaneously moved from one place to another."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "971",
            "name": "reef ecosystems",
            "scope": "Biological communities formed by the skeletons of calcareous seawater organisms, usually corals."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "980",
            "name": "remediation",
            "scope": "Methods for decontaminating, reclaiming, and restoring natural resources or reducing the effects of hazards."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1176",
            "name": "topography",
            "scope": "Configuration of the land surface and sea floor."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "002",
            "name": "biota",
            "scope": "Flora or fauna in natural environment, for example wildlife, vegetation, biological sciences, ecology, wilderness, sea life, wetlands, habitat, biological resources"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "006",
            "name": "elevation",
            "scope": "Height above or below sea level, for example altitude, bathymetry, digital elevation models, slope, derived products, DEMs, TINs"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "014",
            "name": "oceans",
            "scope": "Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters), for example tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs, maritime, outer continental shelf submerged lands, shoreline"
        }
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    "fan": [
        "2022-324-FA",
        "2022-353-DD",
        "2023-311-FA"
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