• All-inclusive coral reef restoration : how the tourism sector can boost restoration efforts in the Caribbean 

      Blanco-Pimentel, Macarena; Evensen, Nicolás R.; Cortés-Useche, Camilo; Calle-Triviño, Johanna; Barshis, Daniel J.; Galván, Víctor; Harms, Erika; Morikawa, Megan K. (2022)
      Following a strong decline in the health of Caribbean coral reefs in the 1970s, disease outbreaks, overfishing, and warming events have continued to push these reefs towards a point of no return. As such, researchers and ...
    • Conservation actions and ecological context : optimizing coral reef local management in the Dominican Republic 

      Cortés-Useche, Camilo; Hernández-Delgado, Edwin A.; Calle-Triviño, Johanna; Sellares-Blasco, Rita I.; Galván, Víctor; Arias-González, Jesús Ernesto (2021)
      Over the past few decades, coral reef ecosystems have been lost at accelerated rates as a result of global climate change and local stressors. Local management schemes can help improve the condition of coral reefs by ...
    • Coral reef restoration efforts in Latin American countries and territories 

      Bayraktarov, Elisa; Banaszak, Anastazia T.; Montoya Maya, Phanor; Kleypas, Joanie; Arias-González, Jesús E.; Blanco, Macarena; Calle-Triviño, Johanna; Charuvi, Nufar; Cortés-Useche, Camilo; Galván, Víctor; García Salgado, Miguel A.; Gnecco, Mariana; Guendulain-García, Sergio D.; Hernández-Delgado, Edwin A.; Marín Moraga, José A.; Maya, María Fernanda; Mendoza Quiroz, Sandra; Mercado Cervantes, Samantha; Morikawa, Megan; Nava, Gabriela; Pizarro, Valeria; Sellares-Blasco, Rita I.; Suleimán Ramos, Samuel E.; Villalobos Cubero, Tatiana; Villalpando, María F.; Frías-Torres, Sarah (2020)
      Here, we present unpublished data from 12 coral reef restoration case studies from five Latin American countries, describe their motivations and techniques used, and provide estimates on total annual project cost per unit ...
    • Genomic patterns in Acropora cervicornis show extensive population structure and variable genetic diversity 

      Drury, Crawford; Schopmeyer, Stephanie; Goergen, Elizabeth; Bartels, Erich; Nedimyer, Ken; Johnson, Meaghan; Maxwell, Kerry; Galván, Víctor; Manfrino, Carrie; Lirman, Diego (2017)
      Threatened Caribbean coral communities can benefit from high-resolution genetic data used to inform management and conservation action. We use Genotyping by Sequencing (GBS) to investigate genetic patterns in the threatened ...
    • Growth dynamics of the threatened Caribbean staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis: influence of host genotype, symbiont identity, colony size, and environmental setting 

      Lirman, Diego; Schopmeyer, Stephanie; Galván, Víctor; Drury, Crawford; Baker, Andrew C.; Baums, Iliana B. (2014)
      The drastic decline in the abundance of Caribbean acroporid corals (Acropora cervicornis, A. palmata) has prompted the listing of this genus as threatened as well as the development of a regional propagation and restoration ...
    • Manual para la evaluación de viveros de coral 

      Galván, Víctor; Yánez, Ana Belén; Mercado Cervantes, Samantha; Sellares-Blasco, Rita I.; Cortés-Useche, Camilo (2019)
      La restauración coralina es considerada como el futuro para la rehabilitación y conservación de los sistemas arrecifales y sus servicios ecosistémicos. La jardinería de coral ha resultado ser una estrategia de restauración ...