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JAMAICA<br />

Coauthors: Karl Aiken, Robert Carpenter,<br />

Bernadette Charpentier, Marcia Creary,<br />

Rachel D’Silva, Phil Dustan, Peter Edmunds,<br />

Peter Gayle, Nakhle Hado, Marah Hardt,<br />

Terry Hughes, Joshua Idjadi, Jeremy Jackson,<br />

Stephen Jameson, Nancy Knowlton,<br />

Judy Lang, Yossi Loya, Gustavo Paredes,<br />

Nicholas Polunin, Bob Steneck, Ivor Williams,<br />

AGRRA, CPACC, CARICOMP<br />

<strong>and</strong> Reef Check<br />

Geographic Information<br />

Coastal Length: 894 km<br />

L<strong>and</strong> Area: 11,000 km 2<br />

Maritime Area: 242,311 km 2<br />

Population: 2,798,580<br />

Reef Area: 763 km 2<br />

Number of hurricanes<br />

in the past 20 years: 3<br />

Fig. 21.1 Jamaica, codes represent studies listed in Table 21.1. Missing map code(s) due to unavailable coordinates. AGGRA locations<br />

are omitted for clarity.<br />

Map<br />

Code<br />

Contributor Location Time Period Year<br />

Count<br />

<strong>Coral</strong> Diadema<br />

antillarum<br />

Macroalgae<br />

1 Andres & North Central 1992 1 X X<br />

Witman 1995 1 Jamaica<br />

2 Aronson & Montego 1993-1996, 6 X X X<br />

Precht 2000 2 Bay 1998-1999<br />

3 Cho & Woodley Montego 1994, 1997 2 X X<br />

2000 3 Bay, North<br />

Central<br />

Jamaica<br />

4 CPACC* Isl<strong>and</strong>wide 2001-2003 3 X X<br />

Fish<br />

Table 21.1 Data sources for<br />

Jamaica used in current study.<br />

Map codes represent individual<br />

studies. For exact location of study,<br />

refer to Fig. 21.1; * denotes original<br />

data; for full references, refer to<br />

published literature sources in the<br />

last section.<br />

STATUS AND TRENDS OF CARIBBEAN CORAL REEFS: 1969-2012<br />

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