Spatiotemporal Variation in Coral Assemblages and Reef Habitat Complexity among Shallow Fore-Reef Sites in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary by Kayelyn R. Simmons, DelWayne R. Bohnenstiehl, David B. Eggleston

“…This study characterized the spatiotemporal variation of habitat metrics at eight fore-reef sites representing three management zones in the Florida Keys, USA using visual habitat surveys (2017–2018) acquired before and after Hurricane Irma. …”
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Implementing wildlife fences along highways at the appropriate spatial scale: A case study of reducing road mortality of Florida Key deer by Marcel P. Huijser, James S. Begley

“…Florida Key deer mortality data (1966–2017) showed that about 75% of all reported deer mortalities were related to collisions with vehicles. …”
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Elevation promotes long-term survival of Pinus elliottii var. densa, a foundation species of the endangered pine rockland ecosystem in the Florida Keys by GL Harley, JT Maxwell, GT Raber

“…Here, we investigate the landscape factors that contribute to the long-term persistence of pine rocklands on the 2 islands that contain the largest remaining habitat in the Florida Keys: Big Pine Key and No Name Key. Plot-level biophysical data and island-scale remotely sensed vegetation data were collected from pine rockland savannas and examined with multi-dimensional analysis. …”
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Non-native molluscan colonizers on deliberately placed shipwrecks in the Florida Keys, with description of a new species of potentially invasive worm-snail (Gastropoda: Vermetidae) by Rüdiger Bieler, Camila Granados-Cifuentes, Timothy A. Rawlings, Petra Sierwald, Timothy M. Collins

“…Artificial reefs created by deliberately sinking ships off the coast of the Florida Keys island chain are providing new habitat for marine invertebrates. …”
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Evaluating the use of marine protected areas by endangered species: A habitat selection approach by Kelsey E. Roberts, Brian J. Smith, Derek Burkholder, Kristen M. Hart

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Site-specific variation in gene expression from Symbiodinium spp. associated with offshore and inshore Porites astreoides in the lower Florida Keys is lost with bleaching and disease stress. by Briana Hauff Salas, Joshua A Haslun, Kevin B Strychar, Peggy H Ostrom, James M Cervino

“…Gene expression reported here indicates functional variation in populations of Symbiodinium spp. associated with P. astreoides in the Florida Keys, and is likely a result of localized adaptation. …”
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Dataset for mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) from Gun Club Road, Key Largo, Monroe County, Florida, USA by Michael Boehmler, David DeMay, Adriane Rogers, Heidi Murray, Lawrence Hribar

“…The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District utilises dry ice-baited light traps to monitor mosquito populations on Key Largo, Florida. …”
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Dataset for Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) from Cross Key, Monroe County, Florida, USA by Lawrence J. Hribar

“…The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District deploys dry ice-baited light traps to monitor mosquito populations throughout the Florida Keys. …”
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Dataset for mosquito collections on Big Pine Key, Florida, USA by Lawrence J. Hribar

“…The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District has deployed dry ice-baited light traps to monitor mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) populations throughout the Florida Keys starting in 1998. …”
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Shifting baseline syndrome among coral reef scientists by Milton Muldrow, Edward C. M. Parsons, Robert Jonas

“…Baselines for the Florida Keys bank reef ecosystem were established based on the respondents’ testimonies. …”
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Ranking 67 Florida Reefs for Survival of Acropora cervicornis Outplants by Raymond B. Banister, Robert van Woesik

“…Similarly, survival was highly variable in the middle and lower Florida Keys and in the Broward-Miami subregions. Survival was high and less variable in Biscayne Bay and low and less variable in the Marquesas subregions. …”
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Niche space of corals along the Florida reef tract. by Robert van Woesik, Lynnette M Roth, Elizabeth J Brown, Kelly R McCaffrey, Jacob R Roth

“…Over the last three decades corals have declined precipitously in the Florida Keys. Their population decline has prompted restoration effort. …”
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Dataset for Aedes aegypti (diptera: Culicidae) and Culex quinquefasciatus (diptera: Culicidae) collections from key West, Florida, USA, 2010–2020 by Catherine A. Pruszynski

“…The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District began deploying Biogents® BG Sentinel traps to monitor Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) populations in Key West during a small autochthonous dengue outbreak that began in November 2009. …”
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Small-scale spatial variation in population- and individual-level reproductive parameters of the blue-legged hermit crab Clibanarius tricolor by J. Antonio Baeza, Donald C. Behringer

“…We report on density, individual-level, and population-level reproductive parameters in 14 populations spanning the Florida Keys. In C. tricolor, abundance, population-level, and individual-level reproductive parameters exhibited substantial small-scale spatial variation in the Florida Keys. …”
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Limiting factors for queen conch (Lobatus gigas) reproduction: A simulation-based evaluation. by Nicholas A Farmer, Jennifer C Doerr

“…We compared simulation results to empirical observations of mating and spawning frequencies from conch populations in the central Bahamas and Florida Keys. Our results confirm that low probability of mate finding associated with decreased population density is the primary driver behind observed breeding behavior in the field, but is insufficient to explain observed trends. …”
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Reef endemism, host specificity and temporal stability in populations of symbiotic dinoflagellates from two ecologically dominant Caribbean corals. by Daniel J Thornhill, Yu Xiang, William K Fitt, Scott R Santos

“…Relative to the Bahamas, sympatric M. faveolata and M. annularis in the Florida Keys harbored unique Symbiodinium populations, implying regional host specificity in these relationships. …”
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Rhodobacterales and Rhizobiales Are Associated With Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease and Its Suspected Sources of Transmission by Stephanie M. Rosales, Stephanie M. Rosales, Abigail S. Clark, Lindsay K. Huebner, Rob R. Ruzicka, Erinn M. Muller

“…Samples were collected in June 2018 from three zones: (1) vulnerable (ahead of the SCTLD disease boundary in the Lower Florida Keys), (2) endemic (post-outbreak in the Upper Florida Keys), and (3) epidemic (SCTLD was active and prevalent in the Middle Florida Keys). …”
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Evidence for trait‐based community assembly patterns in hardwood hammock forests by Suresh C. Subedi, J. Aaron Hogan, Michael S. Ross, Jay P. Sah, Christopher Baraloto

“…These sites represent an environmental gradient from less‐productive, more xeric sites in the lower Florida Keys, to more‐productive, wetter sites in the Everglades marshes. …”
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Spatial filters of function and phylogeny determine morphological disparity with latitude. by K S Collins, S M Edie, T Gao, R Bieler, D Jablonski

“…The dispersion of species in shell-shape morphospace is greater in the Gulf of Maine, which also shows a lower variance in ornamentation and size than the Florida Keys, but the faunas do not differ significantly in the ratio of shell to internal volume. …”
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A Fruit Fly, Anastrepha nigrifascia Stone (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Howard V. Weems

“…This small yellowish fruit fly, somewhat larger than a house fly, with rather long, patterned wings is limited to the Florida Keys, from Key Largo Key to Key West. Its two known hosts are sapodilla and wild-sapodilla. …”
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