Conservation status and spatial patterns of AGRRA vitality indices in Southwestern Atlantic Reefs [PDF]
Revista de Biología Tropical, 2010 Coral reefs along the Eastern Brazilian coast extend for a distance of 800km from 12° to 18°S. They are the largest and the richest reefs of Brazil coasts, and represent the Southernmost coral reefs of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean.
Ruy K.P Kikuchi +2 more
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Status of coral reefs in Antigua & Barbuda: using data to inform management [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 The nation of Antigua and Barbuda has experienced major degradation of its coral reef ecosystems over the past 40+ years. The primary drivers of this degradation are multiple and are highly linked to anthropogenic influences, including over-exploitation ...
Ruleo Camacho +3 more
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A rapid spread of the stony coral tissue loss disease outbreak in the Mexican Caribbean [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Caribbean reef corals have experienced unprecedented declines from climate change, anthropogenic stressors and infectious diseases in recent decades. Since 2014, a highly lethal, new disease, called stony coral tissue loss disease, has impacted many reef-
Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip +4 more
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Parrotfish size: a simple yet useful alternative indicator of fishing effects on Caribbean reefs? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 There is great need to identify simple yet reliable indicators of fishing effects within the multi-species, multi-gear, data-poor fisheries of the Caribbean. Here, we investigate links between fishing pressure and three simple fish metrics, i.e.
Henri Vallès, Hazel A Oxenford
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Caribbean reefs of the Anthropocene: Variance in ecosystem metrics indicates bright spots on coral depauperate reefs. [PDF]
Glob Chang Biol, 2020 Dramatic coral loss has significantly altered Caribbean reefs, and coral loss is predicted to result in broad declines in ecosystem services. We evaluate 10 key ecosystem metrics, relating to a variety of different reef services and functions, using data from 328 Caribbean reefs varying in coral cover.
Lester SE +9 more
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Unravelling echinoid mass mortalities: a global overview of mechanisms, spatio-temporal trends, and taxonomic insights. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACT Mass mortality events (MMEs) have been occurring since the dawn of time. However, in contrast to terrestrial events, most marine MMEs remain undetected, largely due to the inaccessibility of many marine environments. One of the most notorious and best‐studied marine MMEs in modern times is that of the population collapse of the echinoid ...
Schmidt LM +2 more
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EVALUACIÓN AGRRA DEL BENTOS EN DIEZ SITIOS DE BUCEO DE “MARÍA LA GORDA”, BAHÍA DE CORRIENTES, CUBA.
Revista de Investigaciones Marinas, 2023 Se estudiaron 10 sitios de buceo de los arrecifes de “María la Gorda” en septiembre del 2004. Se aplicó la metodología AGRRA para evaluar el estado de salud de las comunidades de coral ubicadas entre 5 y 18 metros de profundidad.
Hansel Caballero +4 more
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Severe and widespread coral reef damage during the 2014-2017 Global Coral Bleaching Event [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsOcean warming is increasing the frequency, extent, and severity of tropical-coral bleaching and mortality. During 2014–2017, marine heatwaves caused the Third Global Coral Bleaching Event.
C. Mark Eakin +178 more
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Restoration Ecology, Volume 31, Issue 7, September 2023., 2023 Reversing coral reef decline requires reducing environmental threats while actively restoring reef ecological structure and function. A promising restoration approach uses coral breeding to boost natural recruitment and repopulate reefs with genetically diverse coral communities. Recent advances in predicting spawning, capturing spawn, culturing larvae,
Anastazia T. Banaszak +10 more
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Institutional amnesia pushes fish spawning aggregations towards extirpation
People and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 2, Page 489-495, April 2023., 2023 Abstract How institutions create and manage knowledge has been explored in the context of management and business science. However, little effort has been made to understand how, and why, these institutions forget what works or does not work, and no research in this field has been conducted in conservation or fisheries science.
Stuart Fulton
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