Search
Search Results
-
Reassessing the role of herbivores on urban coral reefs: A case study from a heavily impacted reef near Cartagena Bay, Colombia
Coral reefs are beginning to experience conditions unlike any in recent history. Understanding ecosystem function on future reefs will require...
-
Physiological and ecological consequences of the water optical properties degradation on reef corals
Degradation of water optical properties due to anthropogenic disturbances is a common phenomenon in coastal waters globally. Although this condition...
-
Conservation at the edge: connectivity and opportunities from non-protected coral reefs close to a National Park in the Colombian Caribbean
Confronting a sustained coral reef conservation crisis, we need new opportunities to rethink how to protect areas successfully and efficiently in the...
-
Status of Cuban Coral Reefs
Coral reefs worldwide suffer from a combination of anthropogenic factors such as overfishing, habitat degradation, and pollution and environmental...
-
Surviving marginalized reefs: assessing the implications of the microbiome on coral physiology and survivorship
Coral reefs are undergoing degradation due to overexploitation, pollution, and climate change. Management and restoration efforts require that we...
-
Insights from Cuban Coral Reefs
In the 1970s, the Cuban coral reefs were the object of extensive exploration. The results were published in Spanish, Russian, French, and German but...
-
Coral Reefs in Cuban Marine-Protected Areas
The coral reefs of Cuba are considered among the best conserved in the Caribbean basin. Of the Cuban coral reefs, 35% (more than one hundred thousand...
-
A Remote Sensing Appraisal of the Extent and Geomorphological Diversity of the Coral Reefs of Cuba
The coral reefs and lagoons of Cuba are mapped using Landsat satellite images at 30 m spatial resolution following the Millennium Coral Reef Map**...
-
Ciénaga de Zapata Biosphere Reserve: Integrating Science with the Management of Coral Reefs
Coral reefs are one of the most representative ecosystems of the Ciénaga de Zapata Biosphere Reserve (RBCZ) and support important socioeconomic...
-
Training for Aquaculture and Fishery Activities for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
In Cuba, 211 protected natural areas (PNAs) that constitute 20% of the national territory are under eight management categories. This chapter...
-
Guantánamo 2.0: Transforming Gitmo into a Peace Park and Ecological Research Center
Cuba has a long history of environmental protection, with a network of more than 250 national parks and protected areas, and relatively high levels...
-
-
Grazing dynamics on a Caribbean reef-building coral
Corals in certain Caribbean coral reef habitats are constantly grazed-on due to the territorial marking behavior of the stoplight parrotfish ...
-
Cuban plant collections of J. A. Shafer, N. L. Britton and P. Wilson
This paper presents information extracted from the field-books of the Cuban plant-collecting trips of J. A. Shafer, N. L. Britton and P. Wilson. A...