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Assessing the effects of Mona Island marine protected area on coral reef fishes
(2011)
No-take marine reserves or no-take zones (NTZ) have become an effective tool for restoring
marine populations threatened by overfishing by allowing populations to recover from excessive
extraction. In 2004, a NTZ was ...
Towards improvement of northeastern Caribbean tsunami hazard assessments - coring of coastal ponds yields seven events in a 5,000 year-old period
(2018-06-01)
Current tsunami coastal hazard assessments in the northeastern Caribbean, limited by an uncertain interplate coupling and a short historic and paleoseismologic record, would benefit from ground truthing by means of detailed ...
Habitat characteristics as determinants of shelf edge fish communities, with emphasis on Scarid populations, off La Parguera, PR
(2010)
Shelf edge reefs provide valuable habitat to a wide variety of marine organisms. Yet,
because of their depth and highly sloping bottom these areas are not understood with respect
to fish habitat relationships and even ...
Satellite remote sensing characterization of fish spawning aggregation sites in Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands
(2013)
This work investigates the seasonality of the satellite-derived chlorophyll signal (Chl-a) at
eight (8) established fish spawning aggregation sites in Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin
Islands and events that might ...
Fungi associated with demosponges from Puerto Rico
(2020-11-24)
Fungi are distributed worldwide and perform a variety of services in the environment. They are regarded as decomposers, involved in carbon cycling and immobilization in the ecosystem. Many are important symbionts of plants, ...
Integrated studies in coral reef ecology: Genetics, octocoral predation, and remote sensing
(2016)
This dissertation consists of three peer-reviewed publications that are integrated by their collective contribution to several different scales of information (molecular, community, and landscape) that are important in ...
Reproductive biology of two ecomorphs of the Caribbean coral Montastraea cavernosa in La Parguera, Puerto Rico
(2020-12-09)
The reproductive success of corals is an important element for the maintenance of populations, community and ecosystem function. The common Caribbean reef-building scleractinian Montastraea cavernosa has two distinct, ...
Development of a standardized holobiont virus extraction protocol and its first application to coral reef environments
(2019-05-14)
Coral reef invertebrates are not, nor have ever been, completely autonomous entities; rather they exist as a network of inter-dependent species, living and evolving as a “holobiont”. A major, yet relatively understudied, ...
Fish, algae and coral dynamics from various reefs in southwest Puerto Rico
(2009)
A study composed of three experiments was conducted in 7 reef sites, at 5 and 10 m
depth off the southwest coast of Puerto Rico, to examine fish, algae, and coral dynamics. The
first experiment employed exclusion cages. ...
Tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida) from coastal waters of La Parguera and Culebra Island, Puerto Rico, with taxonomic observations
(2010)
This work represents a taxonomic contribution to the knowledge of the Order Tanaidacea, Crustacea from shallow waters of Puerto Rico, an order of free-living and exclusively benthic malacostracans belonging to the Superorder ...