Lobel, Phillip S.Lobel, Lisa Kerr2025-03-272025-03-272024P.S. Lobel, L.K. Lobel. 2024. "A Ten-Year Record Shows Warming Inside the Belize Barrier Reef Lagoon" Sensors, Volume 16, Issue 1, pp.57-57. https://doi.org/10.3390/d160100571424-2818https://hdl.handle.net/2144/49946The Belize Barrier Reef system (BBR) in the western Caribbean’s Gulf of Honduras contains a large region of lagoon coral reef, seagrass and mangrove habitat. As the largest lagoon habitat within the Caribbean, this region experiences differing oceanographic and temperature conditions as compared to deeper offshore areas. The occurrence of several endemic species within the Gulf of Honduras area and inside the Belize lagoon supports the hypothesis that this area is a unique biogeographic region. Consequently, the ecological effects of temperature increase due to global climate change may have a long-term adverse impact on this region’s unique marine species. This study reports an in situ temperature record over a ten-year period (2004–2014) collected from a coral reef offshore of Wee Wee Cay within the South Water Cay Marine Reserve of Belize. There was a steady increase in temperature during the decade.p. 57enCopyright: © 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/In situ ocean temperatureWee Wee CayBelizeMarine ecologyCoral bleachingGlobal warmingEndemic reef fishesAnalytical chemistryEnvironmental science and managementDistributed computingElectrical and electronic engineeringAnalytical chemistryEcologyElectrical engineeringElectronics, sensors and digital hardwareEnvironmental managementDistributed computing and systems softwareArticle10.3390/d16010057880145