A General Review of Sedimentation as it Relates to Environmental Stress in the Virgin Islands Biosphere Reserve and the Eastern Caribbean in General
Hubbard DK. 1987. A General Review of Sedimentation as it Relates to Environmental Stress in the Virgin Islands Biosphere Reserve and the Eastern Caribbean in General. Biosphere Reserve Research Report No. 20. Virgin Islands National Park & Virgin Islands Resource Management Cooperative. St. Thomas, USVI
"This report discusses the impacts of sedimentation on tropical marine environments. Because of the greater susceptibility of reefs, the majority of the discussion is aimed at this specific environment. Included are: 1. A review of the general types of sediment stress that occur in marine systems. (Smothering, shading, scouring & inhibition of recruitment) 2. A discussion of the critical parameters that should be measured in any study of sediment stress. (Concentration of suspended solids, settling rate, origin of suspended and settled solids, character of the sediments, light levels, water depth, current patterns) 3. A discussion of sources of sediment stress in the Caribbean, including examples from within the V.I. Biosphere Reserve, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the eastern Caribbean. 4. A more specific treatment of area-wide problems, along with strategies that exist or should exist to cope with them."
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Hubbard, Dennis
- Date of Issue
- 1987-08
- Publisher
- Virgin Islands National Park & Virgin Islands Resource Management Cooperative
- Units
- VIIS
- Keywords
- Coral, Impacts, Marine, Physical Sciences, Sediment (Marine), Virgin Islands National Park St. John US Virgin Islands