Reef fishes support important fisheries throughout the Caribbean, but a combination of factors in the tropics makes otolith microstructure difficult to interpret for age estimation. Therefore, validation of ageing methods, via application of Δ14C is a maj...

"The Micronesia Challenge is a promise by the Micronesian governments to take better care of our environment our natural resources. This booklet, produced by the Micronesia Challenge Young Champions Program provides activities to teach the importance of c...

The data set consists of two products. The first product are maps that represent fish average densities collected by active hydroacoustic survey technique in the water column along a transect for each monthly sample. These data are also compiled by loca...

"This is the first progress report of our research project in the maritime reserve of the North East Corridor. It will describe the work done during the month of December 2013, until the present. The report suggests some preliminary ideas to be taken into...

"Providing the socio-economic analysis to a broader multidisciplinary research that has as its main goal informing the development of a coherent management plan for the maritime zone of the Northeast Ecological Corridor, in Puerto Rico, our research proje...

"The following report is based on data - gathered through interviews, focus groups, community meetings, and field notes - that describes the most pressing conditions and dynamics ruling over the management of the reserves that are within the territory of ...

"The following report summarizes the second part of findings based on data gathered through semi-structured interviews, focus groups, community meetings, and field notes. It continues the descriptions, developed in the third progress report, of the most p...

"The following literature review focuses on works exclusively related to the main themes of our research project: (1) the management of Marine Protected Areas and (2) its development in the Caribbean and Puerto Rico. It contains the main concerns and argu...

"The following report describes different perceptions that main users hold towards CEN Marino. How do stakeholders perceive the use and management of natural resources in the maritime zone of the North East Corridor? Are there conflicts and contradictions...

Increasing heat stress due to global climate change is causing coral reef decline, and the Caribbean has been one of the most vulnerable regions. Here, we assessed three decades (1985–2017) of heat stress exposure in the wider Caribbean at ecoregional and...