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Widespread local chronic stressors in Caribbean coastal habitats. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Coastal ecosystems and the livelihoods they support are threatened by stressors acting at global and local scales. Here we used the data produced by the Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity program (CARICOMP), the longest, largest monitoring program in ...
Iliana Chollett, Rachel Collin, Carolina Bastidas, Aldo Cróquer, Peter M H Gayle, Eric Jordán-Dahlgren, Karen Koltes, Hazel Oxenford, Alberto Rodriguez-Ramirez, Ernesto Weil, Jahson Alemu, David Bone, Kenneth C Buchan, Marcia Creary Ford, Edgar Escalante-Mancera, Jaime Garzón-Ferreira, Hector M Guzmán, Björn Kjerfve, Eduardo Klein, Croy McCoy, Arthur C Potts, Francisco Ruíz-Rentería, Struan R Smith, John Tschirky, Jorge Cortés   +24 more
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Switching between standard coral reef benthic monitoring protocols is complicated: proof of concept [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Monitoring the state of coral reefs is necessary to identify drivers of change and assess effectiveness of management actions. There are several widely-used survey methods, each of which is likely to exhibit different biases that should be quantified if ...
Henri Vallès, Hazel A. Oxenford, Alex Henderson   +2 more
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Caribbean-wide, long-term study of seagrass beds reveals local variations, shifts in community structure and occasional collapse. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
The CARICOMP monitoring network gathered standardized data from 52 seagrass sampling stations at 22 sites (mostly Thalassia testudinum-dominated beds in reef systems) across the Wider Caribbean twice a year over the period 1993 to 2007 (and in some cases
Brigitta I van Tussenbroek, Jorge Cortés, Rachel Collin, Ana C Fonseca, Peter M H Gayle, Hector M Guzmán, Gabriel E Jácome, Rahanna Juman, Karen H Koltes, Hazel A Oxenford, Alberto Rodríguez-Ramirez, Jimena Samper-Villarreal, Struan R Smith, John J Tschirky, Ernesto Weil   +14 more
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Conservation status, research, and knowledge of seagrass habitats in World Heritage properties

Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 4, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022
This study assesses the relative importance of seagrass habitats toward the values of World Heritage properties and reviews the current knowledge about the conservation status, threats, monitoring, and management of seagrass habitats within WH properties. We highlight the lack of research, monitoring, reporting, and management instrument addressing the
Riccardo Losciale, Jon Day, Scott Heron
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Comparing environmental DNA metabarcoding and underwater visual census to monitor tropical reef fishes

Environmental DNA, Volume 3, Issue 1, Page 142-156, January 2021., 2021
We examined the capacity of eDNA to provide accurate biodiversity measures in species‐rich ecosystems with a case study in two Colombian tropical marine reefs. We compared the results of eDNA analyses with historical data of underwater visual census monitoring.
Andrea Polanco Fernández, Virginie Marques, Fabian Fopp, Jean‐Baptiste Juhel, Giomar Helena Borrero‐Pérez, Marie‐Charlotte Cheutin, Tony Dejean, Juan David González Corredor, Andrés Acosta‐Chaparro, Régis Hocdé, David Eme, Eva Maire, Manuel Spescha, Alice Valentini, Stéphanie Manel, David Mouillot, Camille Albouy, Loïc Pellissier   +17 more
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The CARICOMP Network of Caribbean Marine Laboratories (1985–2007): History, Key Findings, and Lessons Learned

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019
Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity (CARICOMP) was a basin-wide cooperative, international network of marine laboratories established in 1985. Recognizing major trends of change in coastal ecosystems and the importance of the linkages among them, our ...
Jorge Cortés, Hazel A. Oxenford, Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek, Eric Jordán-Dahlgren, Aldo Cróquer, Carolina Bastidas, John C. Ogden   +6 more
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Monitoring coral reefs, seagrasses and mangroves in Costa Rica (CARICOMP)

Revista de Biología Tropical, 2010
The coral reefs, seagrasses and mangroves from the Costa Rican Caribbean coast have been monitored since 1999 using the CARICOMP protocol. Live coral cover at Meager Shoal reef bank (7 to 10m depth) at the Parque Nacional Cahuita (National Park ...
Jorge Cortés, Ana C Fonseca, Jaime Nivia-Ruiz, Vanessa Nielsen-Muñoz, Jimena Samper-Villarreal, Eva Salas, Solciré Martínez, Priscilla Zamora-Trejos   +7 more
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The Jamaican CARICOMP Site: using a temporal data set to assist in managing coastal resources

Revista de Biología Tropical, 2010
Discovery Bay is one of nine sites around Jamaica’s coastline, soon to gain the legislative protection of Fish Sanctuary (and Scientific Reserve) status. Cumulative natural and anthropogenic impacts drove the 1980’s coral to algae phase shift.
Peter Gayle, Bernadette Charpentier, Omar Spence, Adrian Levrel   +3 more
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Environmental state and tendencies of the Puerto Morelos CARICOMP site, Mexico

Revista de Biología Tropical, 2010
The CARICOMP site at Puerto Morelos, Mexico was monitored from 1993 to 2005. No significant changes in air temperature, wind patterns, periodicity and quantity of rainfall, sea-surface temperature and water transparency were observed between sampling ...
Rosa E Rodríguez-Martínez, Francisco Ruíz-Rentería, Brigitta van Tussenbroek, Guadalupe Barba-Santos, Edgar Escalante-Mancera, Guillermo Jordán-Garza, Eric Jordán-Dahlgren   +6 more
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Monitoreo del manglar de Gandoca, Costa Rica (sitio CARICOMP)

Revista de Biología Tropical, 2007
El manglar de Gandoca, Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre Gandoca-Manzanillo, Caribe de Costa Rica, se ha monitoreado desde 1999. La especie dominante es el mangle rojo Rhizophora mangle.
Ana C Fonseca E, Jorge Cortés, Priscilla Zamora   +2 more
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