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An updated checklist of Scyphozoa (Cnidaria, Medusozoa) from the Mexican Caribbean: integrating literature, citizen science and field collections [PDF]

Biodiversity Data Journal
This study presents an updated checklist of Scyphozoa from the Mexican Caribbean, incorporating records from published literature, citizen-science initiatives and collected specimens.This study documents evidence for the presence of 17 scyphozoan taxa ...
Edgar Gamero-Mora, Ivan A. Osorio, Laura Celis, María A. Mendoza-Becerril   +3 more
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Biodiversity and new records of benthic amphipods (Crustacea: Peracarida: Amphipoda) from coral reef protected natural areas in the Mexican Caribbean Sea

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2023
The Mexican Caribbean Sea is the longest section of the Mesoamerican Caribbean Sea, with 16 protected marine areas. During 2015 and 2016, 2 sampling campaigns in the Puerto Morelos Coral Reef National Park and the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve, Quintana ...
Ignacio Winfield, Manuel Ortiz, Sergio Cházaro-Olvera   +2 more
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Unraveling migratory corridors of loggerhead and green turtles from the Yucatán Peninsula and its overlap with bycatch zones of the Northwest Atlantic. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Bycatch represents a conservation problem when endangered species are affected. Sea turtles are highly vulnerable to this threat as their critical habitats overlap with fishing zones in all regions of the world. We used sequences of the mitochondrial DNA
Elizabeth Labastida-Estrada, Salima Machkour-M'Rabet   +1 more
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Socio-ecological vulnerability assessment to Sargassum arrivals [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The proliferation of holopelagic Sargassum spp. (Sargassum) in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean is of concern for populations and coastal ecosystems in the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and West Africa.
Julien Jouanno, Rafael Almar, Frank Muller-Karger, Guillaume Morvan, Brigitta van Tussenbroek, Rachid Benshila, Patrick Marchesiello, Kwasi Appeaning Addo   +7 more
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Sensitivity Analysis of OTEC-CC-MX-1 kWe Plant Prototype

Energies, 2021
The Mexican Caribbean Sea has potential zones for Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) implementation. Universidad del Caribe and Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia, with the support of the Mexican Centre of Innovation in Ocean Energy, designed
Jessica Guadalupe Tobal-Cupul, Estela Cerezo-Acevedo, Yair Yosias Arriola-Gil, Hector Fernando Gomez-Garcia, Victor Manuel Romero-Medina   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gene flow between subpopulations of gray snapper (Lutjanus griseus) from the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
Background The gray snapper (Lutjanus griseus) has a tropical and subtropical distribution. In much of its range this species represents one of the most important fishery resources because of its high quality meat and market value.
Oscar de Jesús Rosado-Nic, J. Derek Hogan, José Héctor Lara-Arenas, Rigoberto Rosas-Luis, Laura Carrillo, Carmen Amelia Villegas-Sánchez   +5 more
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Element concentrations in pelagic Sargassum along the Mexican Caribbean coast in 2018-2019 [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
The massive influx of pelagic Sargassum spp. (sargasso) into the Mexican Caribbean Sea has caused major deterioration of the coastal environment and has affected the tourism industry as well as livelihoods since 2015.
Rosa E. Rodríguez-Martínez, Priyadarsi D. Roy, Nuria Torrescano-Valle, Nancy Cabanillas-Terán, Silvia Carrillo-Domínguez, Ligia Collado-Vides, Marta García-Sánchez, Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Coral Reef Recovery in the Mexican Caribbean after 2005 Mass Coral Mortality—Potential Drivers

Diversity, 2020
In 2005, an extreme heatwave hit the Wider Caribbean, followed by 13 hurricanes (including hurricanes Emily and Wilma) that caused significant loss in hard coral cover. However, the drivers of the potential recovery are yet to be fully understood.
Xochitl E. Elías Ilosvay, Ameris I. Contreras-Silva, Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Christian Wild   +3 more
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Distribution extension of Acanthobothrium cartagenensis Brooks & Mayes, 1980 (Tetraphyllidea: Onchobothriidae) in Urobatis jamaicensis (Cuvier, 1816) (Myliobatiformes: Urotrygonidae) from Quintana Roo, México [PDF]

Check List, 2015
The collection of eight specimens of Acanthobothrium cartagenensis on the coast of Quintana Roo, México extends the geographic distribution of the species from the original locality (Cartagena, Colombia) to at least the northeastern limit of the Mexican ...
Scott Monks, Griselda Pulido-Flores, Marcelo Lara-Sánchez   +2 more
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A new species of Monstrilla (Copepoda, Monstrilloida) from the plankton of a large coastal system of the northwestern Caribbean with a key to species [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2019
The genus Monstrilla Dana, 1849 is the most diverse of the copepod order Monstrilloida. Monstrilloid copepods are endoparasites of benthic polychaetes and molluscs; adult individuals are free-living, non-feeding reproductive forms that briefly become ...
Eduardo Suárez-Morales, Iván A. Castellanos-Osorio   +1 more
doaj   +3 more sources