image: Key West, Florida, then and now. Left: A 1774 nautical chart, with locations of coral indicated. The inset shows an enlarged image of two adjacent historical coral references. Right: The same area represented by Google Earth imagery overlaid on a compiled modern benthic habitat map. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 06 September 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by L. McClenachan at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and colleagues was titled, "Ghost reefs: Nautical charts document large spatial scale of coral reef loss over 240 years." view more
Credit: [Credit: Loren McClenachan]