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A scuticociliate causes mass mortality of Diadema antillarum in the Caribbean Sea
(2023)
Echinoderm mass mortality events shape marine ecosystems by altering the dynamics among major benthic groups. The sea urchin Diadema antillarum, virtually extirpated in the Caribbean in the early 1980s by an unknown cause, ...
Trends in Dominican Republic coral reef biodiversity 2015–2022
(2023)
In 2015, we initiated a country-wide coral reef ecosystem-monitoring program in the Dominican Republic (DR) to establish biodiversity baselines against which trends in the most important components of coral reef ecosystem’s ...
Widespread loss of Caribbean acroporid corals was underway before coral bleaching and disease outbreaks
(2020)
The mass mortality of acroporid corals has transformed Caribbean reefs from coral- to macroalgal-dominated habitats since systematic monitoring began in the 1970s. Declines have been attributed to overfishing, pollution, ...
Effects of herbivory by the urchin Diadema antillarum on early restoration success of the coral Acropora cervicornis in the central Caribbean
(2020)
Herbivory is a key process well-known to maintain a coral-dominated state, and in the Caribbean Sea, the long-spine urchin Diadema antillarum is thought to aid coral success by removing algae from seafloor substrate that ...
Reefs at Risk in the Caribbean
(2004)
"Reefs at Risk in the Caribbean" is an integral part of the work of the World Resources Institute, the International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN), and the UNEP Caribbean Environment Programme (CEP) in the Wider ...
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 ...