Saba Bank: coral status and trends

The University of Wageningen (IMARES) has participated in research voyages to the Saba Bank in 2011, 2013 and 2015. Monitoring of coral reefs has mostly been done by surveying video transects and looking at coral recruitment.

This news item is based on a presentation given by Erik Meesters (WUR) at the Saba Bank Symposium in December 2016.

This news article was published in BioNews 31.

BioNews is produced by the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance and funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs.