Browsing Investigación ambiental by Subject "Arrecifes de coral"
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La pesca de organismos marinos ornamentales y su impacto en los arrecifes de coral
(2022)[Español] La pesca con fines ornamentales comienza la Republica Dominicana en la década de los 80. El país se consolida como un exportador mediano de especies marinas destinadas al comercio de acuarios recreativos, exportando ... -
Plan para el estudio de la epizootiología de corales: guía para la evaluación, seguimiento y manejo preventivo de enfermedades y blanqueamiento de coral en la República Dominicana
(2020)[Español] Con la intención de generar información científica que permita conocer la exposición potencial y prevalencia de enfermedades coralinas, y contribuir a la implementación de acciones efectivas de manejo del ecosistema ... -
Planning for resilience : incorporating scenario and model uncertainty and trade-offs when prioritizing management of climate refugia
(2022)Climate change has become the greatest threat to the world's ecosystems. Locating and managing areas that contribute to the survival of key species under climate change is critical for the persistence of ecosystems in the ... -
Reefs at risk : a map-based indicator of threats to the world’s coral reefs
(1998)This global, map-based analysis evaluates human pressure on coral reefs worldwide and provides information and tools to better manage coastal habitats. Key Findings: - Coral reefs of Southeast Asia, the most species-rich ... -
Reefs at risk revisited
(2011)This report provides a detailed assessment of the status of and threats to the world's coral reefs. It evaluates threats to coral reefs from a wide range of human activities, and includes an assessment of climate-related ... -
Reefs at risk revisited : Atlantic
(2011)The World Resources Institute (WRI) spearheaded a broad collaboration of leading conservation organizations and research institutes to conduct a global, map-based analysis of threats to the world’s coral reefs called Reefs ... -
Reefs from space : satellite imagery, marine ecology, and ethnography in the Dominican Republic
(1994)Coral reef bleaching is an obvious indication that coastal marine ecosystems are being stressed. However, bleached reefs alone are poor indicators because they reflect the final stages of stress. This research project used ... -
Salud de los arrecifes de coral en la República Dominicana : reporte 2020 y 2021 = Coral reef health in the Dominican Republic : report 2020 and 2021
(2022)[Español] El presente estudio, realizado durante octubre del 2021, aporta datos e información actualizada sobre el estado de diversas áreas de arrecifes de coral a lo largo de la costa de la República Dominicana. Las áreas ... -
Santé des récifs coralliens en République d’Haïti : rapport 2020 et 2021 = Coral reef health in the Republic of Haiti : report 2020 and 2021
(2022)[Français] Le Réseau Mondial de Surveillance des Récifs (GCRMN) a élaboré des directives pour la surveillance des récifs coralliens dans les Caraïbes, afin de mesurer ces facteurs clés de la santé de ces derniers, dans le ... -
Satellite monitoring of coastal marine ecosystems: a case from the Dominican Republic
(1991)Este reporte se ocupa de los cambios globales en los ecosistemas marinos de la costa, especialmente los que están ocurriendo en la Isla Española. Los arrecifes de coral de la Española, como cualquier otro ecosistema marino ... -
Sedimentation as an important environmental influence on Dominican Republic reefs
(2001)Reconnaissance surveys and benthic community mapping in Parque Nacional del Este, southeastern Dominican Republic, revealed that discontinuous and poorly developed fringing reefs are interspersed with vast areas of low-relief ... -
Similarities and differences between two deadly Caribbean coral diseases : white plague and stony coral tissue loss disease
(2021)For several decades, white plagues (WPDs: WPD-I, II and III) and more recently, stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) have significantly impacted Caribbean corals. These diseases are often difficult to separate in the ... -
Status and trends of Caribbean coral reefs : 1970-2012
(2014)This work is the most comprehensive analysis and compilation of information on coral reef in the Caribbean over the past 40 years. Although the report clearly shows that there has been an ongoing decline in coral cover and ... -
Status of Caribbean coral reefs after bleaching and hurricanes in 2005
(2008)The most extreme coral bleaching and mortality event to hit the Wider Caribbean (including Atlantic) coral reefs occurred in 2005. This was during the warmest year ever recorded, eclipsing the 9 warmest years that had ... -
Stony coral tissue loss disease and other diseases affect adults and recruits of major reef builders at different spatial scales in the Dominican Republic
(2022)Monitoring programs can help understand coral disease dynamics. Here, we present results from a national program in the Dominican Republic (DR) aimed at evaluating coral diseases 3 times a year following a nested spatial ... -
Tendencias en la biodiversidad de los arrecifes de coral de República Dominicana
(2023)En 2015, iniciamos un programa de monitoreo de ecosistemas de arrecifes de coral a nivel nacional en la República Dominicana (RD) para establecer referentes de biodiversidad contra los cuales se podrían rastrear las ... -
The Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity Program (CARICOMP)
(2001)CARICOMP is a regional scientific program to study land-sea interaction processes in the Caribbean coastal zone. It has been collecting data since 1992, when a Data Management Centre was established at the University of ... -
The transformation of Caribbean coral communities since humans
(2021)The mass die-off of Caribbean corals has transformed many of this region’s reefs to macroalgal-dominated habitats since systematic monitoring began in the 1970s. Although attributed to a combination of local and global ... -
There is a lion on the reef : the political ecology of the lionfish
(2013)The lionfish is a beautiful and enigmatic creature that has become a conservation priority for organizations that are committed to protecting coral reef ecosystems in the Caribbean. The management of the lionfish is the ...